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when the Church was just beginning to establish a civilization built on the new principles of the Gospel

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The Priestly Life Benson and the place of artists’By Ronald Knox God has no need for anything, proclaims St. Paul in the midst of the Areopagus. God has no need for mankind: He creates men and women out of pure generosity. The priesthood, remarks Monsignor Ronald Knox, is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God could have done without [priests], but he preferred to have, once more, a kind of tool through which his action should express itself. Tools in his hand, that is what we priests were