AUSTRALIA
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn
15 April 2014
Archbishop Christopher Prowse has urged his clergy to exercise courage, pastoral prudence and mercy in their “most complex vocation”.
The Archbishop was speaking to a gathering of his priests at St Christopher’s Cathedral for the annual Chrism Mass, during which the sacramental oils to be used during the year are blessed.
He took the chance to offer some words of encouragement to priests whose vocations have been challenged by the royal commission into child sex abuse by Church officials and a “confusing secularist society”.
“We live out the priesthood in the shadow of the Calvary Cross as always but in a particular manner today.”
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