Reflections of a Catholic Convert

Link to Post on Troubled Priest

A number of months ago, I wrote a post on a troubled priest whose parishioners forced him out of his church. Recently, I met a woman who attends the church and she told me she sometimes felt like God was punishing the congregation for the shabby way it treated the former priest. The new priest is a hard man, inflexible and opinionated. Many people are unhappy. The deacon, a good one, left in part because of difficulties with this priest, although there were other reasons as well. Several people have left as they no longer feel comfortable there. I stopped going after the first month he was there because he had a habit of joking about the physical appearance of women. These were not compliments, but jokes. Trust me, women do not like jokes about their physical appearance.

We should have been happy with the priest we had.