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Abolish the priesthood?

A recent cover story in The Atlantic by former priest and liberal author James Carroll called for an end to the Church as we know it. Has it ever occurred to Carroll that Catholicism has remained stable doctrinally across two millennia thanks largely to priests, bishops and popes who, through their ministry of preaching, have fought off doctrinal error? [1]