'Priests' represent the Lord regarding His divine good. When they do not acknowledge the Lord, they do not signify the Lord.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 854; Arcana Coelestia 3670)

10795. Priests must not claim for themselves any power over people's souls, because they do not know the condition of anyone's inner being. Less still must they claim for themselves the power to open or close heaven, since that power belongs to the Lord alone.