1.   By comparison with the religious orders, the secular church went much closer into the life of ordinary people.

2.   These opportunities included being a member of a sixteenth-century religious order, an elder statesman and a doctor.

3.   Furthermore, in his policy of building towns and castles, Sancho had encouraged and endowed the religious orders and had rewarded the bishops and monasteries with extensive territories.

4.   The future pattern for a new religious order was to be papal approval and a definite rule.

5.   This will not always satisfy governors, parents, the LEA -- or the church or religious order if it happens to be a voluntary-aided school.

6.   Contemplatives often lived solitary and reclusive lives whether or not they were in religious orders.

7.   Some were in religious orders and acted as confessors, others were lay people.

8.   The Catholic Press Office said that new guidelines on child sex abuse involving religious orders would be available to bishops before the end of the year.

9.   THE head of a religious order flew in from Rome to lay a foundation stone for a new pastoral centre in the North-East yesterday.