On a slightly more somber note, from the same blog, where do people get the idea that priests are supposed to be perfect? I grew up in a secular environment, and I know I was taught wrong on this, but why do so many people from religious families get so messed up on this?:
...It’s no wonder that young people shy away from the thought of a vocation if they think it means being perfect. Yes, we need to teach them a respect for priests and religious, but we also need to help them see that all people, including priests and religious, struggle with the call to holiness…a call we ALL share. In a sense, to be holy is to be perfect but God alone is holy (perfect). When we refer to people as holy, we are saying that God’s presence is revealed in that person. We can all strive to reveal rather than conceal God’s presence in us.
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