This column, insofar as it gives the sacrament of holy orders the barest mention, and with it's many acerbic commenters reacting to the mention of the priesthood like vampires to garlic, reminds me of something G.K. Chesterton wrote, I think in <i>Orthodoxy.</i> It had to do with the similar aversion many of his then-fellow Protestants had to devotion to Mary; he commented on a statue of Mary, holding Jesus as a child, and on the problem this presented. He humorously pointed out that you can't have Jesus suspended in mid-air -- i.e., you can't have Jesus without Mary. Similarly, there is no Eucharist without the priesthood.