text: I think the healthiest Catholics -- healthy emotionally and spiritually -- are ones who view the clergy and especially the hierarchy/magisterium warily.  My late father -- a conservative Irish Catholic, truly of the old school -- passed on to us, his children, a skepticism about priests that at least bordered on anti-clericalism; yet he never missed Mass and counted several priests among his friends.  He's gone a long time, but in recent years I've begun to wonder if he knew things, if he had experienced things, that he didn't disclose.