Emmett, as you will know, many of these young spiritual automatons who go into priesthood in love with clericalism actually DO wake up after twenty or so years. They suddenly realise that they have been duped and go off to get married or live with their gay lovers..... leaving a trail of destruction and empty parishes behind them.

There is nothing worse than being subjected to a 24 year old, on whom the chrism is not yet dry, pontificating from a pulpit to a group of parishioners on matters he knows absolutely nothing about.