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One point which [W] made had not occurred to me: but I amplify it here.

A Priestly vocation is not, by any account, just another job. Anyone who puts himself forward sincerely (I suppose there may be frauds) is likely to feel that he has such a vocation, one way or another, and to have put a great deal of emotional commitment and spiritual energy into his application. A Church which preaches the Christian doctrine of Love – and which employs Human resources to put that quality into practice – when rejecting what may well be among the most profound self-defining beliefs of any of its own most loyal members, should at least send someone round to talk him or her down – not just send a rejection letter.*

*[See [Redbook7:104-114][19900328:1738]{Tested Again}[25th March 1990]]

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