1.   Priests have to take a vow of obedience to the Catholic Church.

2.   There was the Nationalist Party, a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation.

3.   A priest has to arrange funerals, marriages, that sort of thing.

4.   Arthur, a friend of Drinan, said the priest never had the chance to defend himself.

5.   At one church a priest reportedly had to stop visitors from scraping lint from the carpet over which the casket had been carried.

6.   -- Irish sex priests have affairs with women.

7.   A priest may have two parishes.

8.   After that date, priests would have to foot the bill.

9.   Along the way, we hear that celibacy may be the reason so many Catholic priests have prostate problems.

10.   But off the record, priests have a great deal to say about the imminent changes.