The clergy is not the Church!

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Church’s Men, so also and first of all members of the clergy: popes and bishops, priests and deacons.

Now, it seems that the eminence of their dignity is the origin of the MISUNDERSTANDING, which confuses the Church with Church’s men. We do not think to the fact that their sacred character with powers, derived from that, are so transcendent fully apart from every work and merit of the persons invested with them… Character and powers, which exist and are effective – as supernatural resources of the Mystical Body – destined to the sanctification and the safeness of the souls, even when the Clergy behaves shamefully, deserving – for itself – the execration and disdain of believers and non-believers.

They must attribute to the priest as such only the good due to the ministry practised by him, because in this case only Christ works and talks in him and for him; on the contrary the guilt of his sins and shames is to be attributed only to him as a man. So he lies when he dares to identify himself with the Church, when he imposes himself in its name, when he takes advantage of his powers. In this case he commits the most depraved sacrilege, he behaves like his most insidious and dreadful denigrator.

Father Enrico Zoffoli (1915-1996)

(Translation by Marina Madeddu)

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