"I get to go to heaven before the rest of you simply by virtue of my ordination." 
What an embarrassing spiritually ignorant talk was that?    What happen to:
“Anyone who wishes to follow me let him fake himself (ego self).”  (Matthew 16:24)
What or where is heaven?  Where ever God is, is heaven, and God is omnipresent & immanent in human.
St. Thomas Aquinas has written “to be is to be with”.  Our being is being with God.
Where we uniquely set aside God & carving out your own self image, is our EGO. 
“To pretend to situate God on our side, against others, is quite simply a blasphemy.” Raimon Panikkar 
“So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.” (Romans 12:5)    He have not fully realized the truth of this teaching.
IOW, he is saying his arms get to go to heaven before his legs!