In addition, thousands of current lay workers in these operations are to receive future retirement benefits from the fund, which the bishop said "remains intact."

The head of the group was said to be Vincent Cheng, a Catholic lay worker.

The lay workers who will soon be filling these slots have significantly fewer years of Catholic schooling and of training in specifically religious subjects.

My parents, religious lay workers, are vehemently against both.

"You don't have to wade through the thick of it as I do," the rotund lay worker said.

His had been a fairly seriðous malfeasance, a terrible example for the lay workers.

The soldiers asked for church officials by name, seized the lay workers and ransacked files.

Three of the foreign lay workers who were seized, all from Spain, were released today on the condition that they leave the country.

The incomes and living standards of lay workers are comparable to those of counterparts who work in the city of Rome.

Members may be priests, seminarians or lay workers.