leadership among the people of God is not about power, it is about caring

This has been a very hard time for Anthony Mancini, Archbishop of Halifax. On Sunday October 4, he released a letter to the faithful of Nova Scotia. This letter allowed the faithful to appreciate the deep personal suffering of the Archbishop over the criminal charges to Bishop Lahey. This suffering was also apparent in the clergy of the dioceses in Nova Scotia. One of the ideas in the Archbishop's letter is that "leadership among the people of God is not about power, it is about caring". This is a truth and unfortunately a goal for the leadership at all levels in the Church. The vocation to the priesthood and the ordained life is a call to serve in the model of the "servant of all", Christ. This abandonment of self serving motives is the call to hoiness that all the faithful are responding to on the spiritual journey. May the public anguish of the Church and its faithful be the impetus to be the servant leaders suggested by the Archbishop.