IN the obituaries section of the BEN, you often say "the officiating clergy was Rev..." Clergy is a collective noun and as such is inappropriate here. A better all-encompassing phrase would be "the officiating minister was Rev ..." as "minister" probably means something to all faiths and is also neutral as far as gender is concerned.
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