
THE APPRENTICE: on the job clergy learning with the executive officer
I remember one day in the Diocese of Ottawa when I had finished work. I was waiting for the bus home. A person approached me at the bus stop and said that he noticed that I came from the offices of the diocese. He wanted to know what I did. Guessing that his general job and mine were very similar, I responded, off-handed, that I was the church bureaucrat. We greeted each other regularly after that encouter! Although currently I