Sacrilege Contemplated or "Lumme! He's at it again!"

Pope Francis continues to astound, and I am learning to love his endearing style as I loved my daughter's when she countered my admonishment, "That's really too bad," with, "No it's not. It's three bad!" 

Father Tracey, S.J. (R.I.P.), who instructed me in 1987, when talking about sacrilege, said that the sin would be committed by some one who assaulted a member of the Catholic clergy (I was happy to accept that) or indeed a heretic, or a pagan "cleric".

I was not so happy with that.

I have now reached the unhappy stage where I would very happily thump not a few Catholic clergy, were it not illegal to do so.