text: Re: the fact that he celebrates Mass for communities who have no other priest, Fr. Boff says, "... bishops often tell me to keep it up, as people have a right to the Eucharist." Because the people have a right to the Eucharist, it follows that the bishops have an obligation -- the defining obligation of diocesan bishops -- to ensure that the Eucharist and the sacraments are available to their people. Vatican II teaches that the Eucharist is the "source and summit of the Christian life." The church is constituted by the Eucharist. It is nonsense to speak of a "shortage of priests"; the church always has the priests it needs. The bishops have no right to exclude women and married men, especially when doing so deprives people of the sacraments. No bishop -- not the bishop of Rome, not the bishop Propria, not the bishop of Brownsville -- no bishop should hesitate to call, train and ordain the priests needed in his local church, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, or marital status.