[Tax-chick]

One by one the devil is knocking the good men from the priesthood.

The priesthood is full of good men. I meet some every Sunday. You'll have never heard of any of them, unless you happen to be in my diocese.

A lesson of this situation, and the recent case of Fr. Euteneuer, is that the challenges of celebrity expose a priest (or a lay man or woman) both to much greater occasions of sin than a lower-profile role, and also expose the person to a much greater risk of false accusation.

This point is, perhaps, insufficiently emphasized to the clergy (and the laity).

[bronx2]

Although I do not know very much about this individual, when I read this story I had the same thoughts as you expressed about celebrity status. I have noticed that there are very few positions or situations which allow one to have this status of notoriety (Pope, Cardinal of Large Diocese, or learned theologian like Avery Dulles) Perhaps when one begins to get noticed the Church should caution them.