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' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'religious leader' becomes 'pope' (I've seen this in another clue).
'facing' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'class act' becomes 'rate' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pope' with 'p' removed 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" .)