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Thu 08 Aug 2003'Crisis of priestly identity' notedMorale is low and motivation is lacking among Irish priests today, Father John Littleton, president of the National Council of Priests of Ireland, said yesterday."All agree there is a certain crisis of priestly identity," he said.Speaking at the international assembly of representatives of English-speaking priests' conferences in Dublin, he said, "Leadership is often inadequate" and there is among priests "varying degrees of laziness or burnout, both due to confusion on identity".