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One of the most critical Issues facing American Catholicism is the quality of Its priestly leadership. There are many how-to resources on pastoral techniques, but very few on spiritual leadership. The author defines spiritual leadership as the ability to influence people internally to move from where they are to where God wants them to be and pastoral leadership as the ability to skillfully use the rites, rules and rituals of the Church to make that happen. Seminaries spend a lion share of their time emphasizing personal piety, but priests today must not only be good personally, they must be good at what they do.

Father J. Ronald Knott is a priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky. Ordained May 16, 1970, he has served as a home missionary, college teacher, campus minister, pastor, cathedral rector, traveling evangelist, homiletics instructor and archdiocesan vocations director. He is presently Director of the Institute for Priests and Presbyterates at Saint Meinrad School of Theology; a columnist for his diocesan newspaper, The Record; and a part-time campus minister at Bellarmine University in Louisville. Father Knott has had articles published in America, Church, Seminary Journal, Deacon Digest, and The Pastoral Review. He has given major addresses at national conventions on church renovation, homiletics, presbyteral unity and vocations. He has presented more than 75 parish missions and retreats and has led more than 100 presbyteral convocations around the country and abroad. Father Knott holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana and a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Presbyterian Seminary in Chicago. He is author of three collections of homilies: An Encouraging Word, One Heart at a Time and Sunday Nights. He is co-author of Religious Communities in the Archdiocese of Louisville as well as author of Diocesan Priests in the Archdiocese of Louisville; For the Record: Encouraging Words for Ordinary Catholics, Volumes I through X; Intentional Presbyterates; From Seminarian to Diocesan Priest; The Spiritual Leadership of a Parish Priest; Intentional Presbyterates: The Workbook and A Bishop and His Priests Together. Three of his books for clergy are available in Spanish and one in Swahili.