That priest must have never owned a cat.
True. It's just a game that cats like to play. Dogs play games like "fetch the stick." Cats like to play "there's a psychotic killer in the house." Once your cat has you sufficiently worried, he curls up and goes back to sleep.
Quite true.
As someone whose cat warned them about someone up to no good outside my open bedroom window, in the middle of a hot summer night, I tend to take a cat’s behaviour quite seriously.