Always those who love their religion more than they love its ossified practices have been known to speak out. These are the prophetic voice, invariably proved right by history. They are the voices one hears in this book, a book composed of the scholarly and personal witness of men who have earnestly exercised their ministry, who have long devoted themselves to the cause of Christianity, who do not seek to impose an alien tradition on others, but who merely want the exercise of a basic right-that of but permissible for all Catholic priests.