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

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

3.   A variety of lay groups are issuing recommendations that could affect how the bishops view the draft proposal next week.

4.   It divides top church officials and mobilizes lay Catholic groups.

5.   Lay Catholic groups, led by Catholics Speak Out, are increasingly demanding reform.

6.   Opposition to the archbishop has continued to pick up momentum with at least one major lay group calling for the creation of a separate Greek Orthodox Church.

7.   A spokesman for the United Christian Forum for Human Rights, a lay group of Christians, gave no details of the attack in a village in Gujarat state.

8.   After four years apart, the Komeito and New Peace Party, both backed by the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist group, merged Saturday into the New Komeito party.

9.   He founded a lay group that helped spread church teachings, and also established a missionary congregation of the Sisters of Maria of the Americas.

10.   Last month, Law alienated some parishioners by discouraging a proposed coalition of lay groups.