The Feast of St. Joseph [also Tuesday in the Fifth Week of Lent]

"Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man...."

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, but they were interesting. They had done …