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I am very grateful you presented this. I too was saddened that this was the last item on the bishops' public agenda and that there were no comments. Perhaps some effective ways forward were presented in the closed sessions, but we will never find out.

Someone, maybe Belloc, said that all the modern heresies (from Protestantism until today) were attacks on the priesthood. It seems that so much of the energy and focus of the Church today is on the bishops and the laity while the priests continue to work harder than ever before while remaining more and more hidden. This is great for our sanctity, but not great for our morale.

While there were good things said about priests at Vatican II, it was very much a Council that focused on the Church, the bishops, and the laity. Now this whole synodality thing seems to be focused on the bishops and the laity but I see very little involvement of the priests. Yet, after this is all over, the priests in the parishes will be the ones who will have to carry out whatever new ideas the bishops and laity want to be incorporated.

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That’s pretty sad actually that NO other bishop had something to say… even if it’s “I’m taking this seriously and I’m at a loss as to how to address this as a body. I guess I’ll go home and talk to my priests.“

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