Verb
clericalize (third-person singular simple present clericalizes, present participle clericalizing, simple past and past participle clericalized)
To make clerical.
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. Pope Francis