[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The proof of the point is that a layperson already runs one such curial office: Spanish layman Joaquin Navarro-Valls is the director of the Press Office.

News to me. I thought he was a priest.

[ArrogantBustard]

Dr Navarro-Valls doesn't look like a priest to me. Unless he's a liberal-poofter-bad-music-composing Jesuit. And I don't think he's one of those.