The purpose of this article was to show the ancillary nature of priestly service. If the priest has lost his traditional leadership in our society, it is certainly due in part to the emancipation of the conscience rising in the wake of the influence of modernity. This influence has entailed a vertiginous decline in a sense of belonging to the Church-institution which those baptized ought to have. But all of the Church’s problems do not depend only on cultural changes. We must recognize that the calling into question of the ordained ministry is also due to certain inadequate theological models.
