| In their opinion, it was impious to secularize ecclesiastical property, and turn it aside to profane purposes. |
| Berger notes that modernity does not necessarily secularize us but it does pluralize us. |
| As there is nothing which the heart cannot sanctify, so is there nothing which it may not secularize. |
| It was intended to check the tendency to secularize benefices. |
| They could, for instance, secularize without rejecting religion in their social identity, they could pursue women's emancipation without rejecting, on a theoretical basis, femininity and motherhood. |
| Thus, once independence had been achieved, the liberals tried to get rid of the church's privileges and to secularize education. |
