When I was a seminarian (in the early 1980s), authorities in our formation would say at times something like: “We are preparing you for a ministry which is not yet here.” This futuristic comment was intended to get us thinking about the things we took for granted in the priestly ministry. Some, maybe most of them, would go away. The climate of the era back then was such that change—both doctrinal…
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