During a lecture to a lay group he asked a volunteer to come to the front and do a reading.

We have strong lay groups in ninety percent of all the towns.

Security agents worked to keep victims of abuse and leaders of lay groups from getting too close to the prelates.

The charges came amid growing evidence of a rightist crackdown on church officials and affiliated lay groups.

It divides top church officials and mobilizes lay Catholic groups.

A lay fraternal group of associates also works in cooperation with the vowed religious.

To these must be added lay groups, both male and female, more or less associated with the mendicants.

She also joined a lay Franciscan group and visited the poor in London.

Catholic biblical scholars, theologians and many active lay groups had good reasons to be grateful.

The scandals are leading some people to join lay groups.