21.   Although underground priests and lay members are still jailed, increasingly the underground and official churches coexist, sharing worshipers and clergy.

22.   In many temples, the earnings are mostly divided among the clergy heads and lay members of the temple management.

23.   Its lay members include professors from Princeton University, Amherst College and the law schools of Harvard, Notre Dame and Louisiana State.

24.   The Guardian Council, made up of six clerics and six lay members, is responsible for checking the constitutionality of legislation enacted by the Majlis, or parliament.

25.   The proposals would have to be approved by two-thirds majorities in all three houses of the General Synod -- bishops, clergy and lay members.

26.   Thorp and Shaw think lay members should know which men are being considered for assignment as bishops and parish priests.

27.   Ireland has been rocked by a wave of sex abuse allegations in recent years against clergy and lay members.