Laura, the author of the post, is a kind, witty and brilliant friend who is doing some of
the hardest pastoral work there is and sometimes must lovingly serve others who would hate her.
Eck had been
working hard at
pastoral work in several parishes around Ingolstadt, and had become a devoted Reformer within the established Church — he had always granted Luther's thesis against Indulgences, but reform should keep within the bounds of established canonical and papal norms.