Journals

Priestly Identity Today

It is an undeniable truth that there has been an identity crisis among the Catholic priests since the Second Vatican Council.1 There are several reasons for this crisis. There has been a move in the Church to secularize the clergy and to clericalise the laity. The crisis of priestly identity is also partly due to a wrong understanding of the two ways of participating in the priesthood of Christ, the ministerial and the common priesthood.2 There are also a number of other factors that have contributed to the crisis in priestly identity, some of which are examined extensively in the second volume of the Utume Theological e-Journal.