The Priestly Life Ida Friederike Görres and of Branwen

and of Branwen

its sublime idealism: would not one willingly die to make that known and loved

As Ronald Knox was preparing to enter the Catholic Church

a Catholic without the discipline or consolation of the Church

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The Priestly Life Ida Friederike Görres and of BranwenBy Ronald Knox God has no need for anything, proclaims St. Paul in the midst of the Areopagus. God has no need for mankind: He creates men and women out of pure generosity. The priesthood, remarks Monsignor Ronald Knox, is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God could have done without [priests], but he preferred to have, once more, a kind of tool through which his action should express itself. Tools in his hand, that is what we priests were