text: The very language that you use, is enough to ring the alarm bells. 
  I must have gone over 50 years as a practising Catholic before hearing the word 'confected' used in this context.
  For me, confectioners make chocolate bars and sweets.
  So No, I can't think of the priest as a confectioner.
  Either you are using the language of a long dead past, or you're using a faux language invented in the last 30 years, I'm not sure which, and I don't really want or need to know.