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National Federation of Priest’s Councils (NFPC)
- The NFPC represents approximately 26,000 priests through 125 priest councils, priests associations and religious communities in the United States. The NFPC promotes priestly fraternity by facilitating communication among priests’ councils; provides a forum for priests to discuss pastoral matters and enables priests councils to speak with a common voice. The NFPC collaborates with the USCCB as well as other national lay and religious groups on programs of pastoral research to further the spiritual renewal of priestly life. The NFPC encourages priests’ councils to promote justice in light of the social teachings of the Church and participates in developing a national and universal perspective of church and ministry.
- Fr. Richard Vega
Conference for Major Superiors of Men (CMSM)
National Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood
Legal Resource Center for Religious (LRCR)
“How much I must criticize you, my church, and yet how much I love you. You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe more to you than to anyone. I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence. You have given me such scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness. Never in this world have I seen anything more compromised, more false, yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous, and more beautiful.
“Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face, and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your sure arms. No, I cannot be free of you, for I am one with you, even if not completely you.
“Then too…where would I go? To build another church? But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects, and again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ’s church. No, I am old enough. I know better.”
CARLO CARRETTO