Actually, Emmett, you may have hit on a very important point there about Farrell's make up, although you are obviously arriving at a different conclusion. Two priests were jailed for what they did to us at junior seminary. Their behaviour made us question EVERYTHING they ever 'taught' us.

These priests were ultra-conservative and devoted to legalism. It's certainly one of the reasons I have no time for the trads on here. There was a heavy price to be paid for THEIR unquestioning obsession with Church Law. But they didn't pay it. WE did.