If you are a member of the clergy, you will have come accross this - and its counterpart. There are some within our congregations who want us to "speak out" against things, or for things, and others who say that faith is "a private matter" and clergy "shouldn't talk politics.

If you are frustrated that your priest does or doesn't do the things you want them to (or not to), or are a frustrated priest who doesn't do the things that people want you to or wants to do the things that they want you not to, and if you are still reading this desperately hoping to parse this sentence, then listen in!