This band isn’t mostly about being a political protest band. We want to entertain; we want to give you a good time. At the same time, if you look through the history of Priest, there’s always been an intelligent factor.
You’ve got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody’s more important than the next guy, and that’s never been the case in Priest.
I grew up in a religious environment, and I’m proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I’m proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
Playing the priest on ‘Oz’ was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn’t lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn’t really motivated to this.
I wanted passionately to be a priest.
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You’d be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.
It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it’s about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you’re in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn’t be appropriate for Priest.
I didn’t have the calling to be a priest. You know, either you do or you don’t.
I did the good priest and the bad and felt that I am getting stereotyped in priest roles. I am not picking them anymore.
When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God’s love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition.
Had I become a priest, the sermons would’ve been electric!
Let me be clear – no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me… I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely… I could have used a bit more solitude.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic… I’m very faithful.
I’m from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she’s the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.
Father Ted’ would be impossible to remake it in America. The whole situation of being Irish and being a priest in Ireland is so different than anything else in America.
I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job – a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure – but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar… I’d pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I’d go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did.
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
I trained to be a priest – started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
In high school, my principal was a priest and my assistant basketball coach. We were close. In high school, I would talk to him a little bit.
