"We know that every priestly vocation is a call from the Lord, but the call comes through the Church, in the Church and for the Church. For that reason the Church has the right, indeed the duty, of determining the requisites necessary for being admitted to the priesthood."
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Zenon Grocholewski
Zenon Grocholewski (11 October 1939 – 17 July 2020) was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
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