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Reflection 278   Based on the Vatican II document 
T
HE MINISTRY AND LIFE OF PRIESTS, 
PRESBYTERORUM ORDINIS - 22

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This concluding article of the document mentions some difficulties of priestly life....and offers encouragement to all priests

Today, 50 years after Vatican II, the main difficulty facing many priests
is the Vatican, the management of the Church....which won't even allow some difficulties to be mentioned, and which in its condemnations of priests like those in Ireland offers not encouragement, but discouragement

See this painfully honest article by Brendan Hoban:
Disenchanted evenings? The mood of Irish diocesan clergy

Jesus, please help the Vatican see the damage it's doing to the priesthood