Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent [the Feast of St. Joseph]
"Not only in faith, but also in works, God has given man freedom of the will." —St. Irenaeus
It is remarkable to note the difference between the newer clergy with whom I work and the ones whom I knew in my formative years in our curious profession.
You see, the older clergy in the 1970’s and 80’s were interesting people. I may have found some of them intolerable, or grossly eccentric, or just plain nuts,…