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Repartee based on clerical ignorance.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee based on church or clergy. · view the constellation · filed as J1263.1

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Filed under Repartee concerning clerical abuses.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Why ignorant priests are favored. They can always find patrons as ignorant as they are Consecration of the ignorant priest. A bishop disgusted with priest's ignorance says, "Who consecrated you as priest?" – "You did, the time I gave you ten florins." Priest who never reads mass. Peasants complain of his ignorance. He says that they stand so close to him that he is afraid they might memorize and then pay no attention to his reading of it Christ's disciples did not pass the examination. Ignorant student unable to pass his examination thus consoles himself
Filed beside it
Repartee concerning clerical venality. (Cf. J1192, J1263.1.2.) Christians have a merciful God. Jew so decides when he thinks of the scandalous life of the court of Rome Repartee concerning clerical luxury Clergy in no need of spectacles. Many do not pray at all, many know their prayers by heart, and the great prelates look through their fingers Choosing his confessor. Ruler explains: "I want a lying priest so that if he repeats my confession he will not be believed." Confession made easy. Peasant sees priest at work in the fields. Tells him he wishes to confess. He is told to put money in the box and take the same penance as the year before

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