Regarding: "The effort, now dubbed V8s for Vocations, has also surfaced as an unanticipated "rallying point for evangelization, and I just didn't see that coming," Keller told National Catholic Register."
- Mimics the diocesan literature for the presbyterate: pictures of young men doing athletic things, thus emphasizing the vocation call is to manly men.
- Where have all those men gone?
- It is not manliness that makes a presbyter. We have only to look at the clerics, recently ordained to elderly, who work for the body of Christ, the parishioners, in the parish to see the characteristics which actually matter. Those characteristics resemble those of Jesus who was loving, spiritually strong, gentle, creative, prayerful, able to work hard, and devout.