I agree with you about the excessive use of humor. There is a retired, visiting priest who regularly fills in at our parish when the pastor is gone and who often turns the homily into stage performance. One minute, he’s cracking a joke, the next, he’s practically crying. He turns his emotions off and on like a faucet and he succeeds in making himself the focus of the homily. At a school Mass, he actually urged the members of the congregation to “bark like dogs” during the homily. Sometimes, he makes heretical statements, e.g. supports women priests. Some of us in the parish have complained to the pastor about these things but to no avail since this priest is supposedly the only priest who can fill in for the pastor when he is gone and because many parishioners actually like this guy. Going to a Mass that he celebrates is truly a penance. The only bright side to this is that this priest is in his late seventies and won’t be around forever.
>>Going to a Mass that he celebrates is truly a penance.<<
I’ve been there, FRiend.
I give it up for the poor souls!