11.   Supply clergy have an advantage over their colleagues who are responsible for the ongoing life of a church, Mangrum said.

12.   The shorthanded clergy there now have to relearn almost all the roles from which they were long cut off, including education and pastoral and social work.

13.   But the hard-line clergy has the support of many radical Islamic groups, which in the past have often broken up pro-democracy demonstrations and attacked offices of liberal newspapers.

14.   Clergy would not have to report anything they learned in confession or other usually privileged conversations if their religion forbids it.

15.   He added that this method will work only if the provincial clergy has integrity of character.

16.   In recent years, unions and activist clergy have worked together informally to organize Hispanic and black workers trapped in low-income service jobs traditionally ignored by the labor movement.

17.   The clergy have their own point of view on the subject.