Quote by Charles Benedict

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

— Thomas S. Monson

“You can leave priesthood. You can be fired from priesthood.”

— Charles Benedict

“A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it…

— Anonymous

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

— Arthur Middleton

“discharge of church as of other duties.” Hunt reported a controversy in the church”

— Clifford Dowdey

The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and…

— Franklin Littell

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you…

— Pope Francis

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not…

— Andrew Greeley

“It is of vast consequence how ministers discharge their office, and conduct themselves towards their people in the work of the ministry, and in…

— Jonathan Edwards

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration…

— Arthur Middleton

We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they…

— Pope Francis

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the…

— Pope Francis