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1. The Cardinal's declaration is very good but we can't forget that the ordained priest is a branch of the vine that is priesthood.
   
   The year should be a year for Christ's faithful to deepen their understanding of the priestly nature of Christ, a nature we all share in because of Baptism.
   
   Together then, we will be renewed as a Church with a priestly character.
   
   The ordained priests will find new and deepened support from the unordained as well as from each other and for each other.
   
   All in the wider community will experience a Church which is both humbled but also powerful in the ways that its people minister in the priestly nature of Christ.

   Posted By: Fr Mick Mac Andrew Bombala-Delegate NSW

2. It's all a bit patronising in this day and age to speak in that sort of language.
   Try some humility and reality perhaps, adjoining ordained ministry to that of the common priesthood of all God’s people.

   Posted By: TJ Lawson

3. Card.O'Malley: The Year of the priest. Do we want the priest to identify in the first place, with the local community or with fellow priests? Which ancient theology is he referring to?

   Posted By: Gideon Goosen

4. Fr MacAndrew, perhaps you can make your views known to Pope Benedict, as he obviously has the wrong end of the stick about the nature of the priesthood?
   
   

   Posted By: Peter

5. Gideon Goosen speaks as if priests have to bond with either the laity or their fellow priests. Isn't it the case that they should bond to both at the same time?
   
   As for TJ Lawson, yours is just another hate-filled comment that should be summarily ignored as envious and irrelevant.

   Posted By: Michael Bernard

6. TJ Lawson.
   
   You can say that when you, too, take the vows of celibacy, obedience and poverty.
   
   Whilst we are all parts of the body of Christ, and Jesus rebuked his disciples for arguing whom among them was the greatest.
   
   However, those of us who live in comforts of non-celibate lives, without obligation to be obedient to our bishops, and are allowed to have as much possession as we want...it will be humility in OUR part to STOP being so sour with sentiments like yours.
   
   As St. John Vianney said:
   
   "When people want to destroy the Church, they'll attack the priests. Once there are no more priests, there are no more sacrifices." (Or something like that)
   
   Priests have sacrificed much more than you and I are willing to do. Give them some credit for it.

   Posted By: Joey

7. Joey, Joey, Joey. Before I say anything let me state that I do have great respect for any priest who lives their vocation but I no longer put them on a pedestal. They are my brothers in pilgrimage, equal before the eyes of God, no better than me as a married man with children, just following a different chosen way of expressing their spiritual life. Don't put your choice down so much (assuming you are married).
   
   You wrote,
   
   "However, those of us who live in comforts of non-celibate lives, without obligation to be obedient to our bishops, and are allowed to have as many possessions as we want..."
   
   Like I said in another comment - "Oh, if only you knew". The only extra 'comfort' we who are married have is an emotional/sexual partner. As for the other 'comforts' I'm sorry, but the priesthood has it hands down there. They have their every need catered for. I on the other hand, having been abused by priests have been left to fend for myself, unable to work for the present trying to deal with the effects, but still having to raise and educate my family and find the money to do so, no financial or emotional or spiritual assistance from my church community (if you can call it that these days), while the priest who abused me can luxuriate in the knowledge that he has his every need catered for and probably has had sex on the side as well.
   
   In regards to 'obedience'. Are you suggesting that we lay people don't have to be obedient? Well, thanks for letting me off the hook.
   
   No, I like Fr Mick's version much better. No cave for him. Much more grounded in reality and good theology.
   
   OYWT

   Posted By: Oh Yet We Trust

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