A day before the government report made new revelations of the collusion of the Irish police and archbishops in covering up decades of sexual and physical torture, the Christian Brothers, the Catholic lay order at the heart of some of the most disturbing abuses, offered reparations of £145m in cash and land, to be handed over to independent trusts.
In Spain, Italy and Latin America as well as France, businesspeople speak of the influence of Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic lay order which supports a number of business schools.
He is in charge of a largely lay order, dating to the Crusades in the 11th century, of 30,000 members, half of them in North America, and his ornate title essentially means he is the pope's representative to Catholics in the Holy Land — a diplomatically sensitive job given Middle East politics.
Archbishop Dolan was one of two Americans named as cardinals on Friday; the other was Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, a witty Bronx native who headed the Archdiocese of Baltimore before becoming the head of a Catholic lay order based in Rome that seeks to support the Christian population of Israel.
He raised the reactionary lay order Opus Dei to the status of a "personal prelature" — the only personal prelature in the Church — directly responsible to him.
Following a cross bearer, hundreds of priests, nuns, deacons, representatives of lay orders and leaders of other religions will file through the portals of St. Patrick's.
As night falls, I wander the beguiling Begijnhof, a cobblestoned 750-year-old enclave of upright houses that harbored the Beguines, a lay religious order of women who banded together in the upheavals following the Crusades.
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Indeed, he seemed to have committed their account to memory, and uses the text to lay out the order of the universe, to speculate on the possibility of a plurality of worlds, and to dismiss all claims for mystery, miracles and prophecy.
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