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Bringing up Father

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Duncan Campbell O.P.
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I want, for my own satisfaction and perhaps others', to set down as clearly as I can some thoughts about the place of the priest in today's world. It wants some thinking about, I feel.

First of all there is very little written on the subject that comes my way. I remember a deliberately superficial and snap picture in the Observer recently of various clergymen, very sympathetic with the Catholic priest, though one wondered on the evidence just why; a strange novel, The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor, which I found evasive and lacking in the decisiveness there must be in a priest, somewhere one hopes even in the vague, tired, washed-out priest that one does see often; and another book I have just got hold of, Priests and People, by Conor Ward: this an excellent sociological study so far as I can judge of a ‘typical’ Liverpool parish, though it leaves out deliberately the personal life of the priest.

Type
Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 17 , Issue 194 , October 1962 , pp. 125 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © 1962 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 It gives a special kind of delight to have things like ‘The Parish Fete’ gravely Pondered as a sociological phenomenon; and some useful ideas, too.

2 I can't find or fabricate another word for someone who sets, or makes sense of, the world to be lived in. This side of the subject is beyond my depth.