One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.