[Cvengr]

You picked up on that as I did. Seems as though the bishop reveals qite a bit in the nature of dead works when he first refuses to discern the Holy Spirit moving and filling one of his priests, also removes the priest after only one or two hours of conversation after a 25 year service, and then lacks the discernment to even consider the difference between spiritual and psychological patterns.

Reads as though the bishop is fallen away as a believer, but sure likes authority and human good.

[B Knotts]

Well, I didn't mean to make any judgment on the bishop's belief, or lack thereof, of God. I just find the implication of mental illness in what appears to be a good and faithful priest (if a bit intemperate) to be extremely unbecoming a man of his position.