The Priestly Life Ida Friederike Görres Father of the West may

Father of the West may best be classified as a work transcending classification

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a Catholic without the discipline or consolation of the Church

human practices

The Priestly Life Ida Friederike Görres Father of the West mayBy Ronald Knox God has no need for anything, proclaims St. Paul in the midst of the Areopagus. God has no need for mankind: He creates men and women out of pure generosity. The priesthood, remarks Monsignor Ronald Knox, is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God could have done without [priests], but he preferred to have, once more, a kind of tool through which his action should express itself. Tools in his hand, that is what we priests were