The Diocesan Priest in the Church of Christ Hales Foremost among these is the

Foremost among these is the problem of belief in an age when the study and speech pertaining to God is frequently performed without faith—a pseudo-theology that “threatens to deprive the average man of any possibility of experiencing faith

its methodology and analysis remain relevant

adds a necessary complement to the broad yet narrow vision of the present age

“Blessed Newman’s insights into the relationship between faith and reason

The Diocesan Priest in the Church of Christ Hales Foremost among these is theBy Joseph Clifford Fenton The Diocesan Priest in the Church of Christ, originally published in 1951 as The Concept of the Diocesan Priesthood, is a masterful description of the mission and ministry of the diocesan priest. No one, writes Fenton, can possess an adequate understanding of the diocesan priesthood unless he know something of the essential and divinely ordered status of the diocesan priest in the Church of Christ. Treating with precision and