[onedoug]

...explaining that he really had little to do with the sacraments, anyway—saying mass, hearing confession, anointing the sick.

I seem to recall from ¨Father Smith Instructs Jackson¨ - a conversion guide I studied in the mid-60s - that saying mass, or one´s participation in it daily, was a requirement for priests. Am I wrong, or has this changed?

[iowamark]

No, priests are not required to say Mass daily. They do have daily prayers to say, called the “Liturgy of the Hours” or the “Divine Office.”