The Eternal Priesthood (8th ed.)

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quoted in ch. 1 of Why Celibacy?:

CARDINAL HENRY EDWARD MANNING, a nineteenth-century English prelate, was convinced of the profound importance of the priest’s fatherhood. The “title of father is the first, the chief, the highest, the most potent, the most persuasive, the most honourable of all the titles of a priest,” Cardinal Manning wrote. “He may receive from the world and from its fountains of honour many names, from the schools of learning many degrees, from the ecclesiastical law many dignities; but none has so deep and so high a sense as father.” Significantly he adds, “And none but the spiritual fatherhood will pass into eternity.” [p. 22, DjVu p. 34]

pp. 22-23 cited p. 272n2 of Thomas E. D. Hennessy, O.P. “The Fatherhood of the Priest.” The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 10, no. 3 (1947): 271–306.