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"""We have to look at the truth head-on: the priesthood seems to be failing,"" explains Cardinal Robert Sarah in this book. ""The priesthood, its status, its mission, and its authority have been placed at the service of the worst crimes. . . The search for worldly glory, power, honors, earthly pleasures, and money has infiltrated the hearts of priests, bishops, and cardinals. How can we tolerate such deeds without trembling, without weeping, without asking ourselves probing questions?"" In the arid desert of Western society, where man believes he is happier without God, Cardinal Sarah invites priests to become ever more clearly the signs of the presence of God in the world. Collected here are the writings of the greatest saints to help priests rediscover the essence of their priesthood so the people of God can renew their gaze upon them. This is not a treatise of academic theology, Cardinal Sarah explains, but a theology of the saints that is contemplative and spiritual as we"

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Robert Cardinal Sarah was born in Guinea, West Africa. Made an archbishop by Pope John Paul II and a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI, he was named the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments by Pope Francis in 2014. A voice for traditional Catholic teaching, he is the author of numerous best-selling books, including God or Nothing, The Power of Silence, The Day Is Now Far Spent, and From the Depths of Our Hearts.

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