[ArrogantBustard]

Coleen, that's the same freak as in the article subject of this threak. Fr. Tom Quinlan, goofball extraordinaire. Uncle Wally loves this stuff. And wonders why priestly vocations aren't answered in his diocese. Fortunately, he retires this year. His successor will have a job worthy of Hercules.

[american colleen]

Duh! Sorry, I should have remembered the name from the original article. Amazing, isn't it?

The biggest aspect of the story to me, isn't the fact that this guy is certainly not fit to be in the same category with Padre Pio, but that his parishioners love him and his parish is huge and growing and it isn't made up of the usual suspects - the 60s enlightened crowd. I just don't get it. What is wrong with the vast majority of Catholics? We are almost like the UU's.

And that priest isn't going to retire until they take him out in a box (going by the second article).