About 1941, on his vocation to the Jesuits

I was leaving an exam, and a Jesuit teacher called me over. I went out one door, and he came out the other and asked me why I was taking a liberal arts course instead of a business course. And I explained to him that I had been thinking of the priesthood. I did not tell him that I was thinking of the Franciscans. He said, "You want me to set up an interview?" I said, "Go ahead." And everything followed from that.

About his pastoral work

in Jamaica 1978-1988

The Jamaican people are quite different: poor and not well-organized. You have to work slowly with them. You become much more involved, I think, with the people, although some pastors up here are also quite involved. In Jamaica, I tried, as a pastor, to treat my parishioners as family. Ocho Rios was the tail that wagged the dog. We all knew that St. Ann's Bay was not able to survive on its own. The people there were very poor. Ocho Rios was the main part of the parish with visitors to Jamaica. We had about two hundred coming to Mass from the hotels.