Positions 2 Prefects, 4 Bourgmestres, 1 Lesser admin, 2 Military, 2 Clergy, 5 Others.

Right? And immediately, he got into trouble with the local clergy who said, you can't make a vacuum.

Positions 7 Ministers, 1 Parliamentarian, 2 Prefects, 1 Senior admin., 2 Bourgmestres, 10 Military, 1 Clergy, 1 Other.

Positions 7 Ministers, 1 Parliamentarian, 2 Prefects, 1 Senior admin., 3 Bourgmestres, 9 Military, 1 Clergy, 2 Others.

These concerns were reflected in the fact that the Society of Combatant Clergy, a conservative body, was unable to endorse Ahmadinejad s candidacy.

Positions 1 Acting Minister, 2 Prefects, 3 Bourgmestres, 1 senior administrator, 1 Lesser admin, 2 Military, 2 Clergy, 1 media, 4 Others.

Positions The 21 accused held the following positions in 1994 1 Prime Minister, 3 Ministers, 2 Prefects, 4 Bourgmestres, 1 Senior Admin., 3 Media, 1 Military, 1 Clergy, 5 Others.

Positions The 25 accused held the following positions in 1994 1 Prime Minister, 4 Ministers, 2 Prefects, 5 Bourgmestres, 2 Councillors, 1 Senior Admin., 3 Media, 1 Military, 1 Clergy, 5 Other.

These ideas are well known in liberal academic circles, but clergy like myself have been reluctant to air them, for fear of creating tension and division in our church communities, for fear of upsetting the simple faith of more traditional believers.

After 70 years of denial, Russia s leadership (if not yet ordinary Russians) were ready to admit that Joseph Stalin s NKVD (precursor to the KGB) slaughtered more than 20,000 Polish officers, intellectuals, and clergy in the nearby Katyn forest in 1940.

Meanwhile, Iran s citizens including clergy in the holy city of Qom, near the Fordow nuclear facility are deeply concerned about the consequences of an attack. Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, a former attorney general and a religious authority (marja ), has asked the government to refrain from provoking Israel.

What s more, Mousavi and Karroubi, perhaps chastened in part by the unfulfilled promises and excesses of the Islamic Revolution are seemingly in no hurry to see abrupt change. Instead, they have pursued a gradualist approach that aims to co opt and recruit disaffected members of the traditional classes, including clergy and Revolutionary Guardsmen, to the Green Movement.

But so can an overworked high school teacher who cannot dedicate the needed energy to troubled students magazines that promote unrealistic body images sermons from clergy who believe that God does not forgive everyone or even a stranger acting rudely on a train. All of these actors have their own ideas and motivations, and they are all manipulating our perspectives and our moods every day.

Catholicism in its heyday combined a fairly decentralized administration, under the sway of stand alone bishops, with a uniform set of beliefs. One reason why it used to take roughly 13 years for a Jesuit to reach ordination was the long indoctrination in orthodoxy required for priests who, unlike regular clergy (whose training lasted half that time), would be mobile and beyond the direct control of bishops.