14/6/2014,
The Good Shepherd Sisters from Australia contacted me some months ago. They asked if I could do personality assessments for three I Kiribati girls who had applied to enter their novitiate. Sometime later I visited Tarawa, the main island of the Kiribati group. The three girls came to meet me. I administered some tests and interviewed each girl in turn. The lengthy interview explored very personal issues.
I went to their convent the following day to complete the tests. The Sister-in-charge told me that the girls talked to her on their return to the convent the previous evening. They said to her that it was a good thing that the priest interviewer was not a young handsome man.
I told this story to my sister in Ireland today. Being well up in the ways of the world, she retorted, “What they really meant was they were disappointed that you weren’t a young handsome man!”
by Fr. Frank Hoare
