Analyze the character "the priest" in the novel A Farewell to Arms.

The priest in A Farewell to Arms, a
character with no specific name other than "the priest," is the voice of conscience.
While the soldiers make fun of him, he is stoic and even good-natured as he blushes
about their jokes poking fun at his celibate life. When the priest comes to visit
Frederic Henry (when Henry is wounded and lying in pain in the field hospital in Chapter
11), the priest brings Henry vermouth, English newspapers, and mosquito netting. In the
conversation that follows, the priest tells Henry that he hates the war and that there
are two kinds of people: "There are people who would make war. In this country there are
many like that. There are other people who would not make war" (page numbers vary by
edition). The priest pushes Henry to reconsider his own views about the war and about
the nature of love. When Henry describes the way he feels about love, the priest tells
him that he doesn't yet understand that true love involves
sacrifice.

The priest's conversations with Henry change the
way Henry thinks about the war and about love, and they also show that the priest is a
deep-thinking person who understands the futility of war and the essential quality of
love. The priest is young, but wise and full of love, as he only hopes that Henry and
the other soldiers emerge from the war unharmed, despite the soldiers' relentless
mockery of him.