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Q: I was talking with a few teens in catechesis class about a common problem in our parish. People who go for the sacrament of reconciliation, once they see Father X or Father Y isn’t there, prefer to go another time. Or they show disappointment when it turns out that Father A or Father B will celebrate Mass. Or there are people who offend their bishop and don\u2019t love them. You don’t need to like<\/em> everybody, even priests, but if we need to love one another, what can we say about the bishops? To paraphrase Ignatius of Antioch, Where the bishop is, there is the Church.<\/em> I told the teens, \u201cYou may not like a bishop, but you do need to love him.” I may have been too strong. Here in my diocese in Brazil, we have a great bishop. I love him, but not everyone else does. I see bishops who make bad decisions, but the only option is to pray for their conversion — and ours, of course. Does that make sense? \u2013 Fernando<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC<\/em><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0It sounds as though you are doing a great job with the young people.<\/p>\n

Respect for the clergy and for bishops is very important, even if they have their shortcomings (we all do).<\/p>\n

This might be a good teaching moment for your students. You can remind them about the very nature of love. It\u2019s an act of the will, not the feelings. Good feelings can help you love, and bad feelings can make love harder, but love is deeper than feelings.<\/p>\n

You touch on this when you distinguish between their liking <\/em>a bishop and loving<\/em> a bishop.<\/p>\n

It might be good to point out the example of a mom changing her sick baby\u2019s diapers at 3 a.m. Though she might not \u201cfeel\u201d like losing sleep, she tends to the infant out of a deep sense of love, happy or grouchy.<\/p>\n

The love we show to clergy and bishops owes in part to their office. The mission of priests and bishops comes from Christ. They are God’s chosen instruments.<\/p>\n

A telling example of the respect due to God’s chosen leaders is found in the Old Testament, when David refrains from attacking Saul. \u201cThe LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD\u2019s anointed, to lay a hand on him, for he is the LORD\u2019s anointed\u201d (1 Samuel 24:7).<\/p>\n

It would be good to encourage the young people to treat clergy the way that they would treat their parents. Even if their parents aren’t perfect, the young people still owe them respect. This is pleasing to God.<\/p>\n

Jesus himself respected authority — even Pilate\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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He was an assistant publisher of the National Catholic Register and Faith & Family magazine and an editor of the Zenit news agency\u2019s English edition. He has written for\u00a0SpiritualDirection.com\u00a0and\u00a0ePriest. Fr. McIlmail also worked in spiritual retreats in the Northeast, New England, the Midwest, and the South\u00a0and assisted with mission work in Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in journalism and was active in the pro-life movement before entering the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153427"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=153427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}