Part 2
to serve the church, in collaboration with the local bishop, as representative and agent of Christ, the head of the Church, and therefore as representative and agent of the church community before God and the world.  The priest is "aliter Christus' [Christ in another way]."

I know/have known priests who are/were every bit as good as this.  And I know/have known priests who are/were at the bottom of the barrel.  I support the priesthood, not clericalism.
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1) Pope Benedict XVI Homily, 19 June 2009, www.vatican,va.

2) Synod 1990/Archbishop Pilarczyk, "Defining the Priesthood," Origins 20/19 [18 October 1990] p. 299.