“The priesthood is a strenuous way of life,” writes Episcopalian priest Reverend Anne Richards in the closing essay of our two-issue symposium on the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. “It demands emotional strength; … maturity; tolerance of great ambiguity; relative comfort with a wide range of emotions; patience; the ability to withstand conflict and use it creatively; the ability to lead; and self-acceptance…. [It also requires] the ability to take upon oneself a largely public role while sustaining an interior life that [while] integrated with the public self … is not shared publicly-in other words, [it requires] the ability to learn consciously to hold boundaries. These are constant and life-long challenges for any priest. Undertaken consciously, they can be very fulfilling and freeing. Blundered into, they can lead to great grief and emotional hurt to others, because the emotional strains of the job are usually