THE REV. RIP VAN WINKLE

All right, you may say, the CMRI "professor" may not be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but he's a valid priest who can administer the sacraments. He's been a priest for 20 years.


Perhaps.


But, then, tell Diogenes what you make of this tale out of school, printed verbatim from an eye witness account:

While translating the Rituale in Latin class, [the Mater Dei "professor"] was wondering if "imponit manum super caput infantis...et postea manum extensam tenens dicit..." means that one should hold the hand over the head of the baptizand or one should actually touch it. 

Infant baptism is not rocket science, and in 20 years he should have gotten it right. Any priest with a year's experience (except perhaps for a certain one we have heard of in Michigan) knows the answer. Why not the seminary "professor"? The man needs his walking papers immediately, but not before undergoing a remedial course in the administration of the sacraments.


Can there be any doubt why another Mater Dei seminarian has just decided to leave this den of mediocrity?