Priest Page #3

It could be an adolescent thing ?

Apparently it happens

to kids of her age.

Lisa !

- Hello, Father.

- Hello.

Fr. Greg brought her home.

- Do you want a cup of tea, love ?

- Yeah. Thanks, love.

Hey.

You okay ?

Yeah.

So... what brought it on ?

I don't know.

And where were you ?

- ln class.

- Class ?

You all right now ?

That's a girl.

- There ya go, Phil.

- Thanks, love.

- Maybe you shouldn't leave her

on her own.

- Oh, we don't.

If I'm not with her,

Phil is.

Fr. Greg, did you get

a new cartridge ?

- Sorry ?

- For the photocopier ?

I've got 300 Housing Action

sheets to do.

Bye.

Bye, then.

Thanks again.

You all right ?

Yes.

I can't go into details.

If I intervene,

I could stop someone's suffering,

but that means--

Breaking the seal

of the confessional, yeah.

I know what

you're going through.

What would you do ?

I'd drop a hint.

Um, Lisa Unsworth

doesn't look too good.

It's these fits,

they get her down.

Do you think

it's that ?

- Or do you think

it might be something else ?

- From the Parish team listed below.

Hello. St. Mary's.

Fr. Greg speaking.

It's Sister Kevin here.

That young girl you mentioned,

- there is something else.

- Oh ?

There's a big lump of a bully

standing in front of me,

and she's been stealing

Lisa's packed lunch.

Right. Well--

- Thank you for letting me know.

- Thank you.

Good-bye.

- Right, Fr. Greg,

I'll get this over to Brian.

- Okay.

Hello.

Social Services. Social Services.

- I need to speak to someone

about a child at risk.

- Hold on, please.

Hello.

Can I help you ? Can I help you ?

- No.

- Yeah, ta-ta, Phil.

- Ta-ta, Chris. See ya.

- Yeah ?

- It's got to stop.

Look, she's taking fits

because of what you're doin'.

Piss off !

All right ?

They used to ask a question

when we were in seminary.

- It was a sort of standard question.

A man tells you in confession

that he's poisoned the altar wine.

Do you still go out

and say Mass ?

Oh, thanks.

No, I had no problem

with that.

I'd go out and say Mass,

drink the wine.

There's a bit of the martyr

in all of us.

But when it's

not you suffering,

when it's someone

else suffering,

and you know you could stop it

just by speaking out--

Geronimo !

Give us a cup of coffee. Go ahead.

- Bugger off !

- There it is.

- Just leave my flask.

Leave my flask ! Don't touch that.

- Come on.

- What's wrong with ya ?

- Just beat it !

Come on,

give us a swig.

Not very nice, is it, eh ?

Not very Christian !

He wasn't human enough,

the Son of God.

He had certainty.

Heaven, everlasting life,

He knew it all with absolute certainty.

Well, give me that, and, fine,

no problem, you can crucify me as well.

All the agonies of the world,

no bloody problem whatsoever...

because I'd be certain

that God exists.

But I'm not certain.

All I've got is faith.

Then something evil

comes along,

grinning,

sickening evil,

and faith just

runs away in terror.

Do you want to come back

to my place ?

The day before He suffered,

He took bread

in His sacred hands,

and looking up to Heaven,

to You, His almighty Father,

He gave You

thanks and praise.

He broke the bread,

gave it to His disciples and said,

"Take this...

all of you and eat it.

This is My body...

which will be given up

for you."

When supper was ended,

He took the cup.

Again, He gave You

thanks and praise.

Gave the cup

to His disciples and said,

"Take this, all of you,

and drink from it.

This is the cup

of My blood,

the blood of the new

and everlasting covenant.

It will shed for you

and for all,

so that sins

may be forgiven.

Do this...

in memory of Me."

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

Body of Christ.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

- Body of Christ.

- Amen.

Who was he ?

No idea.

And you couldn't

give him communion ?

No.

I never denied

anyone communion.

They had more right to receive it

than I had to give it.

Have you always

been celibate ?

But I'm not proud of it.

It's a gift from God.

He gave me

the gift of celibacy.

He gave you

certainty of vocation.

Two totally

different gifts.

I want both.

Ah, now,

that's being greedy.

Sitting in my room,

sweating.

I turn to him for help.

I see a naked man...

utterly desirable.

I turn to him for help

and he just makes it worse.

Up there in my room...

that's my Gethsemane.

I understand humanity then;

every sin, every compulsion.

I understand it all.

Saliva, racing pulse,

adrenaline;

the ecstasy

before the fall.

And, Matthew--

What I should say is, Matthew,

I can't smile and hug...

and preach the beauty

of creation,

because inside here there's just

sin and sickness and evil and--

Whoa.

I was going to get out,

Greg,

when I was your age.

But it would've broken

my mother's heart.

So I waited.

By the time she died...

it was too late.

There was nothing else

I could do.

Get out now, Greg,

while you still have

your health and strength.

Love who you want,

when you want.

Get out.

I can't get out.

God wants me

to be a priest.

I don't think it,

I don't just... believe it.

I know it.

I'll pray for you.

And what about

them new flats they built, eh ?

You remember them, don't you ?

I know what you're gonna say, Tommy.

They rent them in no time

at all. It's houses they want...

with a front

and a back garden.

- That is what they want.

- Yeah, you're right.

Those flats are what they wanted.

And they rent them

in no time at all !

Look, what I'm saying

is housing isn't the answer on its own.

There's a whole load of other stuff.

I mean, jobs for a start.

How's Lisa ?

Um-- Uh, well, she's fine.

Uh, she's with her dad.

Just a minute, let's get

one thing quite straight, ehh--

Before you put 'em in decent

houses you gotta get 'em a

decent education, decent jobs...

- and decent God knows what !

- That is not what I'm saying, Tommy.

What're you gonna do with us then ?

Maroon us all on a desert island until

you've got everything just there ?

You can't just put 'em

in a house with hot and cold water

and say, "There you go.

That's my bit."

I'm talking about values.

I'm talking about changing attitudes.

- God, give me patience !

- Changing attitudes takes...

a bit of money and it takes education.

I'm sorry, I can't go on with this.

There you are.

It must've been

something you said.

Do something !

Don't just hang there, you smug,

idle bastard ! Do something !

Feminists and liberals,

that's all you need, isn't it ?

Ooh ! Early finish,

eh, Philly ?

I'm gonna tell someone.

That's what you'd do.

She's a 14-year-old girl.

You wouldn't see her suffer.

You'd say, you'd say,

"This girl is me.

This girl is all-suffering humanity.

For this I came."

You wouldn't give a damn

about the church and its rules

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