Priesthood, Consecration, Marriage: Is Love Possible? A Symposium Discerning the Signs of the Times

“Such an impossible unity of passion and freedom is really the beginning of heaven on earth.”

“If the Marian Church were not the Bride of Christ, the ordained priest would be deprived of both the possibility of an authentic gift of self and of his very fatherhood.”

“By his naturalness, a priest presents to others, with as little interference as possible, the humble face of Christ.”

“[T]he current crisis in the Church is significantly an intellectual problem, a problem, that is, of ideas—the solution to which is education, a deep and broad education.”

“In and through the sacraments of the Church, God allows us to participate in his love. We learn to love what he loves and to love in the way that he loves.”

“I am not good at interpreting these interior conflicts, and I fear being exposed to all kinds of illusions about myself.”