"Peter's sin reveals how it is possible in the same person to have infallibility and to be without impeccability. Peter was told he would be without error if he would use his power of the keys, but the Lord gave him no assurance that he would be without sin. That goes for every priest in the world. It is one thing to say the Creed; it is quite another to obey the commandments. It is easy to proclaim the Divinity of Christ from a pulpit, but hard to see the same Christ when He sends a cross. It is so facile to mount a professor's platform, but so difficult to descend to the rubbish heap of Golgotha. To make Christ out to be a moral teacher, a social activist, a defender of the poor is so satisfying to social instincts; but to see in Him a Savior Who takes on the burden of the world's guilt and Who says "Take up your cross" is a frightening specter. I was a priest without being a victim." -Bl. Fulton Sheen