• The Holy Curé of Ars
  • Forgiving Sins
  • Suffering from Persecutions
  • Fisher of Men
• The “Year for Priests”
  • Wind of Resistance
  • Indflrence
  • A “Sentences Commentary”

• The New Ecciesiology of Vatican II
  • De-Christianized West
  • The Authority of Holy Scripture
  • Mission of All the Baptized
• Mission as Ministerial Responsibility in the Church
  • The Circle of the Twelve
  • Witness and its Challenge
  • Ministerial Calling in the Room of the Last Supper
• Character of Set-vice According to Christ’s Example

• The Presbyter: Office and Relationship
• Effectiveness of the Salvific Sign
  • Being, not Action, the Foundation of the Priest’s Qualffication
  • The Seal (“Sphragis—Character Indelebilis”)
  • The “What” of Character
• A Recently Discovered Sermon of Saint Augustine

• Liturgy of Ordination
• Greek Fathers of the Church and Orthodox Formularies
• Right and Wrong Questions

• A Loophole in Reflection?
• Jesus as Model
• Conceptual Pair as Hermeneutic Tool
• Credibility of Mission and Obligation of Celibacy
• A Lament of Saint Thérêse of the Child Jesus

• Fellow-Helpers of the Bishop
• Post-apostolic Roots
• The Meaning of the Term Communio Hierarchica
  • Communio: Antecedent, Binding, and Liturgically Renewed
  • Communio Hierarchica: A Well-Ordered Relationship
• Council of Priests

• Spirituality in Social Research
• God’s Relevance as “Ultimate Truth”
  • A Past Statistic for a Present Problem
  • The Priest’s Ministerial Obligation to Bear Witness
  • Obstacles to Spiritual Lfe
• The Relationship to God as Crux of the Problem
  • The Importance of the Question of God among Laity and Priests
  • The "Imaginary" and the "Present" God
• Seeking God’s Face
  • Prayer
  • Celebration of the Eucharist
  • Penance and Reconciliation

• The Contemporary Need for Community
  • Communion Confirmed by the Revelation
  • Communion of the Baptized in the Footsteps of Mary
  • Communion among Secular Priests
• Safeguarding Individual Freedom

• Correction of the Tridentine Image of the Priest
• Sacramentally Sent—Also to Preach
• Is Everyone Responsible for Preaching?
  • What Does Preaching Mean?
  • Theses on “Lay Preaching”
• The Hermeneutic Horizon
  • Unity of Services in the Church’s Ministry
  • Spiritual Dimension of the Church’s Action
  • Identification with the Church
• Revival of the Tridentine Conception of the Priest?

9 "SACERDOS ALTER CHRISTUS"—THE PRIEST AS “ANOTHER” CHRIST?

• Vatican II’s Aids towards an Understanding
• École Française
• Priest as Alter Christus in Preconciliar Encydicals
• Systematic and Spiritual Premises of the Conciliar Decree
  • Presbyterorum Ordinis
  • The Meaning of the Term Repraesentatio or Repraesentare
  • Worker Priests
• The New Teaching of Vatican II
• Serving Christ’s Presence in Every Baptized Person

10 THE PRIEST UNDERSTOOD IN THE LIGHT OF SECULAR MODELS

• Vatican II—Can it Be Misunderstood?
• Qualification to Rule by Election
• Majority Decision or Communio?
• Functionality Instead of Transmission of Faith
  • Max Muller
  • Jean Mouroux
  • Luigi Giussani
• Ministerial Authority as Privilege of Rank

11 PASTORAL ASSISTANTS AND DEACONS: ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE SACRAMENT OF ORDINATION

• Engagement in the Church
• Postconciliar Reorganization of Pastoral Care
• Vatican II and Pastoral Services
• The Best Possible Requisites
• Karl Rahner’s Reflections
• Arguments from the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sociology of Organizations

12 GOD AS MYSTAGOGUE: Individual Religious Sense and Ecclesial Way of Salvation

• Growing Individualism
• The Greatness of the Individual
• “Taste for God” in Some Fathers of the Church
• Individual’s Need for the Church: Erik Peterson
• Motivated by Fellow-Believers: Charles de Foucauld
• “Vae soli—Woe to Him Who Is Alone” (Eccles 4:10)
• “Buried with Christ” and “Raised from the Dead with Christ”