You are being too humble with your description of Father's car. Isn't it a Ford Escort or something? And a 4-door.
Do the other members of the House have cars or do they all share the one vehicle?
I remember thinking to myself when I first saw it that it wasn't much of a car for grown men to be crawling in and out of. Spanky wagon. Tomato can.
Do you mean to say that nobody at St. Anthony's knelt for the 50 years prior to Father's arrival? Honey, I'm 36 and every Catholic in the United State knelt for Communion until I was about 10 years old.
And, again, the priest can distribute Communion in the approved form that he prefers. Your real problem is with authority and learning to submit to it. I'm referring to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church here, not Father.