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An uncle of mine was a priest who more or less fluent in English, Latin and Italian. Also Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinean Pidgin English) for that matter from whe
by emmelaich 9y ago
An uncle of mine was a priest who more or less fluent in English, Latin and Italian. Also Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinean Pidgin English) for that matter from when he was a missionary.
He spent quite a lot of time in the Vatican and may well have been one of Foster's students.
I sometimes think whether his great talents were wasted as a priest* but stories like this help me think they were not.
* there were expectations of you going into the priesthood if you were the eldest son in an Irish Catholic family.
- Bromskloss 9y ago> there were expectations of you going into the priesthood if you were the eldest son in an Irish Catholic family. Doesn't that make for an overabundance of priests?
- emmelaich 9y agoYes and no. Yes, because there were probably priests who shouldn't have been. No, because there's still a lot of people in the world to convert.