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Glissenti's own version of the Dance of Death in the fourteenth novella (in Book Three), not only radically laicizes the traditional scheme found in Marchant or Holbein, but also pitches the encounter between Death and his victims in a markedly professional framework.

Delisle, a spokesman for the Worcester diocese, said Bishop McManus has asked that the Vatican laicize other local priests who have been removed from active ministry by the diocese because of allegations of sexual misconduct.

The Vatican has been asked by church authorities in Worcester and Texas to "laicize" Rev.

At this point, if he were a simple priest, the archbishop of New York could have asked the Vatican to laicize him.

Delisle, a spokesman for the Worcester Diocese, said that the Vatican has been asked to "laicize" Rev.

Almost certainly the Church will not laicize him; it would be an extremely rare exception if she did.

Delisle said, the local diocese formally petitioned the Vatican to laicize - defrock-Mr.