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All three services are beefing up their clerical, support and information-technology staff.

The worker-priests set aside their clerical garb and left their clerical dwellings to take jobs in factories and on construction sites, sharing the living conditions and social and economic problems of their coworkers.

It manifested itself in the violent demonstrations by students against their clerical rulers in Iran this year.

He was immediately deluged with tales of woe from and about women who had fallen for their clerical mentors.

Many organizations are eager for those who are willing to share their clerical and organizational skills in office work.

That is an understandable sentiment in regions where the Vatican has lent support to dictators or their clerical apologists, and in places where the church seems to have ignored or even exacerbated the problems of the most vulnerable, especially women.What of those who are neither Catholic, nor Christian, nor believers in any religion?

"They talk about their 3-year-old seeing them in their clericals and they would tell them, 'Please take that off,"' said Stewart-Sicking, assistantant professor of pastoral counseling at Loyola University Maryland.

He noted that Mr. Thomas had resigned as pastor before his arrest and that church officials had since removed him from their national clerical roster.

But rank-and-file Catholics are actually far more supportive of same-sex marriage than other Christians — not to mention their own clerical hierarchy — and church leaders seem a little less eager than in the past to throw themselves on the barricades.

Never ones to protest once, the Berrigans, amid that trial, organized the Catonsville Nine act of resistance: They walked into the Knights of Columbus Hall here in their Catholic clerical garb, seized documents from the Selective Service military draft board and burned them in the parking lot.

Though their marriage caused a local stir, they did not venture far from the city in their post-clerical lives, wanting to start a family in the same state, and faith, in which they had been raised.