I may have said something silly in church last weekend something like 'It's lonely being a parish priest right now.' It's true in one sense because loneliness is the side effect of the contemporary clash of cultures within Catholicism right now.
Had we pursued the path of lay leadership begun after our catholic self-reformation, known as Vatican 2, of the 1960's, we parish priests would be embedded safely in a community, a parish, driven by wisdom, worship and work... .www.
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