Hi openwater2010,

It didn't occur to me that there is a shortage of Catholic priests.. Perhaps that's why I had a hard time understanding him, I was blaming it on the sound system.

The last Anglican funeral service I was at was mid-Anglican and not as bad as you suggest. But, perhaps that was because the presiding Bishop was a good friend of the family and had previously served at that church.

And, to the point of your last paragraph, all religions need to push a "reset button" nd become more pertinent, and less politically correct, to their congregaions.