re: #496 William Lewis

I mostly have run into Jesuits and Franciscans, so I am spoiled by not personally dealing with the worst of monastics. Now parish priests OTOH…

As I just posted, my background was Franciscan nuns and the priests at our parish were Jesuits.

I remember we had Father Thomas the “hippie” priest for some time at our school. He was intense as hell, but very forward thinking for the time. Anti-war, Earth Day, modern music played before the masses…things like Simon & Garfunkel, Youngbloods and other social music of the day.

He would have strangled us if we were doing what the Covington boys were doing.