In This Issue
On the Centrality of the Blessed Sacrament – Burnell F. Eckardt Jr.
Toward a More Deliberate Preparation – David H. Petersen
Why Rubrics? (Continued) – Mark P. Braden
Extraordinary Essay: On the Order of Creation – Jesse S. Schlie
Why Did You Steal My Gods? – Karl F. Fabrizius
Oracular Aphorisms of Fritz the Penguin



Is a Bishop just a priest, or is a priest a Bishop?
If a Bishop has no other ability than the priest, then he is simply a priest. He has a higher dignity, but so does a pröst. [trans. note: This term could be used for a prior, the dean of a region under a bishop, or one who is a pastor in his own parish as opposed to being under a kyrkoherde. In any of these senses it is an honor given to a priest.] A monsignor and a cardinal, an archpriest and an abbot, these are all higher 23 dignities of the clerical estate, but all these high prelates are only priests. And there is a significant group of theologians, who cannot be denied the epithet catholic, in the present day, who believe that the Bishop is a priest.