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El artículo discurre sobre el fenómeno de la pérdida del estado clerical, cuando se remueve un miembro de su estatus en la iglesia católica. El autor comenta sobre el rescripto de la Sede Apostólica y examina el rol del Concilio Vaticano II en el desarrollo y la implementación de normas relacionadas con este tema.

The history of twentieth-century Russian Orthodoxy has been written largely in terms of the Church and state, martyr and oppressor, all within the traditional paradigm of ineluctable, ubiquitous secularization. This article shifts the focus from Bolshevik and bishop to believer, framed within the more recent model that emphasizes "believing without belonging". While that new paradigm fits the Russian case, the latter certainly had unique specifics: it was precisely the coercive disestablishment of the Church that empowered parishioners and inadvertently laid the foundations for the post-Soviet religious revival. While the depth and meaning of that revival is open to dispute and calibration, it has unquestionably posed a dramatic contrast to contemporary Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]