He even lapsed into heresy when, at the end of 564, he issued an edict stating that the human body of Christ was incorruptible and only seemed to suffer (the doctrine called Aphthartodocetism).
Liberal Jews who read The New York Times or listen to National Public Radio may not think so, but they are naïve; when the pogrom comes, he predicts, even lapsed Jews will search frantically for doorways with mezuzas.
During previous crises, it was also possible for the church to characterize critics as dissident or even lapsed Catholics -- people the Rev. Andrew Greeley refers to as "members of the Catholic pseudo-elite".
Even lapsed Catholics, even Catholics hostile to the church's doctrine who have excised its teachings from their worldview, are left with its imprint on their aesthetic sensibilities — with a tendency to conflate representations of the holy with holiness itself; this is the reason Judaism and many Protestant sects dispense with iconography.
He may even lapse into a trance of seeming stupefaction, open-eyed, mouth slack.
But as Mary McCarthy said in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, even lapsed Catholics still act like Catholics, finding pleasure in the pointless and returning to institutions that hurt them, hoping for good to come—I went back to the hallway full of water in search of my ideal young man.
Even lapsed Catholics may feel like they are disappointing a Higher Power when they skip mass, while Jews may feel pressure from family and friends if they fail to uphold traditional Jewish values like marrying inside the faith and supporting Israel.
Whatever the cause, though, they warn, even minor lapses in etiquette can crimp an otherwise promising career.
Even so, lapses in regulatory restriction of RAG activity are apparent in the aberrant V(D J recombination events that underlie many lymphomas.
Even his lapses in sanity — what today we'd call symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder — are presented within the metaphor of race.
Readers learned that sites like CBS Marketwatch and Slate had rules and regulations in place meant to ensure accuracy -- even if lapses, as at any news organization, sometimes occurred.
