Take page from religious leader facing class act (7)
I believe the answer is:
operate
'take' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'page from religious leader facing class act' is the wordplay.
'page' becomes 'p'.
'from' suggests deleting specific letters.
'religious leader' becomes 'pope' (I've seen this in another clue).
'facing' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'class act' becomes 'rate' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'pope' with 'p' taken away is 'ope'.
'ope'+'rate'='OPERATE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for operate that I've seen before include "Work, function" , "Perform surgery or run a machine" , "Function; run" , "Cut - run" , "Work - perform surgery" .)