Wow ! How odd is that !!
I mean, what canonical reason(s) could there be to dissuade anyone from accepting you ?
The messages from Rome seemed really really straight forward, clear, definitive, etc.........
so not all is lovey dovey across the Tiber. Unfortunately, is this a surprise..........
I think it’s that, being the kind of guy who calls himself Mad Dawg and usually carries a pistol and at least one knife AND pepper spray, cuffs, rubber gloves and an artificial respiration mask, I don’t strike them as the priestly type. The guy said that if I’d come to him when I was young he would have recommended the Dominicans or the Jebbies. I take that as a compliment, especially since I am a lay Dominican.
In other words, it was stuff about ME that they didn’t like. And while I disagree, I can see that I am not your usual secular parish priest type o’ dude.