A bizarre faith-healing ritual has prompted the Catholic Church to warn that an influx of foreign priests had created “difficulties” because they tended to have a more spiritual outlook than Westerners.

If by ‘more spiritual’, you mean ‘less educated’ then yes: you may be correct.

A horrified congregation watched a foreign-trained Catholic priest lay a mentally and physically disabled girl on an altar during mass at the weekend and order her to walk.

I hope that ‘lay on an altar’ is not the traditional Catholic Priest’s method!

(If she was Catholic, then it is a given that she is mentally disabled.)

Vicar-General of Perth’s Catholic Archdiocese Brian O’Loughlin said while the “bizarre and unusual service” was largely due to the priest’s mental condition…

Vicar-General???!?!? What’s next: Detective-Parson? Curate-Corporal?

He would not be allowed to give mass until he is “better”. Quite who gets to judge that is open to question.

All adult educated devout Catholics are certifiably insane in any case.

From thewest.com.au