Secular clergy
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In the Catholic Church, secular clergy are religious ministers, such as deacons and priests, who do not belong to a religious order. While regular clergy take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and place themselves under a rule (regulum), secular religious do not take vows and live in the world (saeculum). They are still bound to Canon law, which for Latin rite priests means that they are bound to obligations of celibacy and obedience.
A number of intra-Church conflicts have occurred due to the tensions between regular and secular clergy.
One of the roots of the Philippine Revolution was the agitation of native secular priests for parish assignments. The powerful religious orders were given preferential treatment in these assignments, and were usually Spaniards who trained in European chapters. The agitation led to the execution of the "Gomburza filibusteros."
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