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1. [Celibacy]
2. Criticism: ... our people are critical - critical of us as celebrants and celibates as theologians and preachers as activists and administrators even as males.
3. Crossfire: ... We make a clear close motionless target - at the altar in the pulpit and presbytery by phone letter to the editor and now the latest instruments of torture by e-mail and texting.
4. Ineffectiveness: ... the sneaking suspicion that my priesthood has little influence on the lives of my people; that all too often my words are wasted on the wind . . . on moral matters on discipleship on social justice issues and especially and increasingly on the young.
5. Closures: ... A sense of disappointment and resentment is inevitable when a good deal of our priestly energy and lifeblood has been invested in those places or in those activities [now no longer in existence].
6. Inadequate Theology of priestly vocation and lay vocation. ... undue emphasis on rules and functions on powers proper to priests powers that distinguish us from the laity. When we find that 'This is my Body' - 'I absolve you' - takes so little of our time and lives we half suspect that the rest of what we do could be done better by a man or woman in the pews.
7. Burnout: ... Fewer priests greater obligations on those remaining higher expectations from parishioners louder outcries when the expectations are not met.
8. Fear: ... Now we share lay insecurities - how to be effective in our ministry how to age gracefully and usefully how to retire without bitterness how to die believing hoping loving. [Quote p.12]"