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Bishops Need to Earn Their Priests’ Confidence, by Phil Lawler  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Bishops Need to Earn Their Priests’ Confidence, by Phil Lawler 

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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Oct 22, 2025

Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.  See full bio.

 

Every now and then, when I have trouble choosing a topic for commentary, I consult the CatholicCulture archives, to see what I was writing five or ten or fifteen years ago around this time of year. So it was that today I found a piece that I had written in October 2017: The crisis of pastoral leadership.

That article, in turn, was prompted by a message from a friend, a priest in a relatively strong American diocese, who complained about the sort of directives he received from the chancery. “Everything is administrative, psychological, or sociological—or simply problem-avoidance,” he said. “Very little is religious or truly pastoral, stressing the urgency of the salvation of souls.” ….

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