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ROME (CNS) The first years of priesthood are challenging, and the best way to survive and thrive is through closeness to God, to one s bishop, one s fellow priests and to one s parishioners, Pope Francis told priests who have been ordained less than 10 years."One never comes out of a crisis alone," the pope told them, according to the Vatican press office.Pope Francis held a closed-door meeting May 29 with about 90 priests working in the Diocese of Rome who have been ordained since 2014; they included priests who were ordained for the diocese in April.Earlier in May the pope had met with priests who have been in ministry for more than 40 years, and he is scheduled to meet June 11 with clerics ordained between 11 and 39 years ago.Meeting at a church complex owned and staffed by the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master, a religious order of women, Pope Francis and the priests began with prayer and then moved into a private question-and-answer session. Pope Francis smiles as

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