I’ve spent 30 years counseling priests who fall in love. Here’s what I learned.
For Catholic priests, love plays a major professional role. They talk endlessly about the love of God, love for God, God's love of man, love of neighbor, even love of self, albeit this last one at times disparagingly. The one that lights them up the most, however, is their love of the priesthood, something every priest I know feels deeply. But the actual mechanics of love between two humans — the many powerful and often conflicted feeling that arise — create problems...
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