Reflection 278
Based on the Vatican II
document (Comments welcome here) |
This
concluding article of the document mentions some difficulties of priestly
life....and offers encouragement to all priests
Today,
50 years after Vatican II, the main difficulty facing many priests
is the Vatican, the management of the Church....which won't even allow some
difficulties to be mentioned, and which in its condemnations of priests like
those in Ireland offers not encouragement, but discouragement
See
this painfully honest article by Brendan Hoban:
Disenchanted
evenings? The mood of Irish diocesan clergy
Jesus, please help the Vatican see the damage it's doing to the priesthood