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Rommen (1897–1967) was among the most important Catholic intellectuals to emigrate from Germany to the United States in order to escape the Nazis

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The Diocesan Priest in the Church of Christ Hales Rommen (1897–1967) was among theBy Joseph Clifford Fenton The Diocesan Priest in the Church of Christ, originally published in 1951 as The Concept of the Diocesan Priesthood, is a masterful description of the mission and ministry of the diocesan priest. No one, writes Fenton, can possess an adequate understanding of the diocesan priesthood unless he know something of the essential and divinely ordered status of the diocesan priest in the Church of Christ. Treating with precision and