The Fatherhood of God, the Fatherhood of the Priest
The drama of human existence is relationship with the father. This has clearly been the case in every period of history, but it is especially so today. The desire for privacy, for escape into one’s past, the withdrawal into oneself, or into one’s family home, and the disinterest in the polis that characterize many people’s lives today derive from, among other things, a field experience of the father. When God first thought of the Church, that is, of a guided company, he thought of man’s constitutive need for a father and a mother. He wanted us always to have fathers and mothers to accompany us.
