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 1 Int,  2      |          participants, including priests, lay people and consecrated
 2   1,  6      |       who came from Europe. Many priests and religious joined them,
 3   1,  6      |         came in greater numbers, priests and religious came as well
 4   2,  12     |          circumstances, Bishops, priests and parishes have offered
 5   2,  17     | expressed the desire that future priests, deacons and catechists
 6   3,  19     |  powerful witness to the Gospel. Priests are the Bishops' closest
 7   3,  30     |         and faithfully, Bishops, priests, and experts in law and
 8   4,  38     |     particularly of seminarians, priests and religious. They are
 9   4,  40     |          the growing scarcity of priests available for pastoral ministry;
10   4,  40     |   priestly life, and to allocate priests throughout the region in
11   4,  41     |      provided by this Sacrament, priests are to be encouraged not
12   4,  48     |      witness offered by Bishops, priests and those in the consecrated
13   4,  48     |          the serious shortage of priests and consecrated religious
14   4,  48     |          8).~ In seminaries, the priests of the future are formed
15   4,  48(158)|         the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum Ordinis, 14.~
16   4,  48     |          Oceania. Local diocesan priests should be provided with
17   4,  48     |       function well without good priests.~The Life of the Ordained~
18   4,  49     |       fidelity and commitment of priests in their priestly ministry.
19   4,  49     |      acknowledge the fidelity of priests as a powerful witness to
20   4,  49     |          not mean, however, that priests are exempt from human weakness
21   4,  49     |       live the Christian life as priests, and it is a great grace
22   4,  49     |         Council taught that "all priests, who are constituted in
23   4,  49     |       own Bishop".(166) In fact, priests with their Bishop constitute
24   4,  49     |         Chrism on Holy Thursday. Priests who are sick, elderly and
25   4,  49(166)|         the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum Ordinis, 8.~
26   4,  49     |        other practical aspects. "Priests need the company and support
27   4,  49     |     company and support of other priests and their Bishop. Bishops
28   4,  49     |       are encouraged to make the priests feel that they are indeed
29   4,  49     |       They should also encourage priests to minister to one another,
30   4,  49     |     island situations where many priests come from societies with
31   4,  49     |          way of life as diocesan priests".(169)~The life of Bishops,
32   4,  49     |             The life of Bishops, priests and deacons requires continuing
33   4,  49     |     offer pastoral care to their priests by being open to their needs
34   4,  50     |        formation. It is good for priests and deacons, each responding