The Atrophy of the Priesthood

The desire for marriage drives the question like, why would i be called? The priest is a functionary. And what he does is celebrate the sacraments. To identify him by his function reduces him to a set of doings that then are substituteable. So when you at the religious woman and say, w hat's what's the being? Who is she conformed to? And what is what is she doing? She's living a very different type of consecrated love. As john paul the second, said, the way the church longs to be loved as a bride.