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All of us boys wanted to be priests, not for any religious motive but because the local priest was such a significant person. I remember one priest, Dr Marron, in retrospect a nasty piece of work. In announcing once that the Christmas collection…

We were absolutely certain that all 'non Catholics' were damned, that Jews were thugs and that atheists were the scum of all the scums. We said prayers in the way a machine gun dispenses rounds of ammunition and as altar boys we gave out the Latin…