'A Good Man Ther Was Of Religoun' Comments

A priest unafraid to dirty his hands in the real world. The robes and trappings of religion are rarely need in the ministry of the unsung hero.

A poor Parson rich of holy thought and work. Like Chaucer's Knight, he sounds like a worthy man. Then there's the bawdy comedy of the parish clerk Absolom in his quest for the Carpenter's wife. Too bad for him hende Nicolas had already 'caught hire by the queynte, /... And heeld hire harde by the haunchebones, ' The window scenes may not be as famous as Shakspeare's balcony scene in Romero and Juliet, but after the banding, what a climax. Chaucer gets a lot darker with the Prioress's Tale. A young boy with his throat slit hidden by the alter. A metaphor for today's abuse of children by priests? Tom

Enjoyed your thinking my friend but such priest are few and far between. Organised religions have become mere ladders for power seekers. The vows of povert chastity and obedience seem somehow to have been lost in the scramble for promtion.