for sop reason, they re falling together for me here. sister camille, what is meant to be the role of celibacy, and what would happen if the church began to think about changie ii it? you ve already described the role of celibacy. it s designed to keep the priest more separate from things that are not more ministerial. in reality, that works or it doesn t work. but what s important about this pope, he s looking forward to the needs of the church and people around the world are being denied the greatest gift of priesthood. there are simply not enough priests to handle this well. and those who are priests who are sell bat priests are so stressed and so strained, because so many of them have to manage several parishes, not just one. so this is this signal from the pope is a graced moment that