Excuse me, but Fr. Thomas Williams and I go back nearly 20 years — and he has, in fact, “worked in a mainstream workplace.” If memory serves me, prior to entering the seminary he was helping reduce a $400 million deficit at a Toledo-based corporations in the 1980’s.

If you’d like confirmation, contact him yourself: twilliams AT legionaries.org (edited email address to avoid robots picking it up)

that sounds like the beginning of a very bad joke….doesn’t sound all that productive for the topic either.