life of a priest; but there is loneliness in every life, as each one of us has to let go of and grieve over the realization that I will never find a particular “someone” out there who will be everything for me. Authentic priestly celibacy is a gift that aspires to have no one in particular for the sake of being more available to love and to minister to many others. The particular vulnerability in which a priest finds himself, without any particular “other” of his own, is greatly exacerbated by the