The Ecumenical News International website reports today (April 16, 2011) that many of Australia's 3,000 active and retired Catholic priests are critical of their bishops, according to a survey released this week.
Dr. John O'Carroll and colleague Chris McGillion of Charles Sturt University in Bathurst sent the survey to 1550 active and 160 retired priests, and 542 -- or about 32 percent -- responded.
Many priests say they are overworked, poorly managed, and feel constrained in their religious vocation by bureaucracy and parish administration.
Nearly half of the surveyed priests consider their bishops as "an exclusive group and one far too subservient to Rome."
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