Francis Bo1路gia Rothluebber, O.S.F.
Pastoral and Managerial Accountability Are priests tired [o1路 the right 路reasons: significant, JJ1l1J)Oseful and future-directed activitie.~?
There is a sentence making the rounds in management seminars these days that states, "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take ~路ou there." And on any road vaguely going somewhere, we may be busy and tired, even harassed. The question of whether or not we are tired for the right reasons or tired through significant, purposeful, futuredirected activities is the burden of these reflections. Some of the questions I have been asked recently read like this: What can priests do to establish priorities in their lives? How can they best make use of time? What can they do to work in and with structures and not be caught in them? How is the accountability of a priest different from that of a chairman of the board and the stockholders? The overall question then is whether or not it is possible to make goals operative in living and working? The approach. taken in this presentation to the question of making goals operative is to share some reflections on the events and search195