Topic: coping
"You are too healthy for the world." That was the assessment given by Eugene Kennedy, a psyhologist and former priest who first disocvered problems in the priesthood way back in the1970's. He was speaking to the national conference of SNAP when he said this. It's obvious that Kennedy fits in that category of "too healthy" folks himself.
Most people do not have the privilege of seeing the transformation of people who have been transformed from the depths of suffering to the mountaintop of the "upper room" where people "wash one another's feet," he went on to say. People back away from those who have been transformed by suffering because the anxiety of witnessing this is just too high.
Especially those who are in a position to exercise authority and are uneasy about doing so. He was speaking, of course, about the people in power in the institutional church.
