The Recovering Choir Director

‘frogmusicnj’ shares an anecdote on the MusicaSacra Forum:

I have a friend….Fulbright Scholar in Organ…13 years in one parish in the St. Petersburg Diocese…and then 7 more years in another one in the same diocese. New transplanted British priest comes in, does not hit it off well, criticizes my friend’s job performance….inflames his insecurities…and then fires him. One would think that a clergyman in need of a job enough to leave his country and come to the US might be a bit more…understanding when messing with the employment of locals, no?

This Fulbright Scholar…with 20 years of loyal and successful ministry to the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida…I talked with him yesterday while he was at his new console…it is a Peterbilt…yes, he’s driving a semi-truck over the road for a living, hauling loads across the US…

My letter to the editor of the diocesan Catholic paper concerning this was….never printed, for some reason or other.