u/pet-fleeve

I'm just wondering whether priests have certain rules to follow when socialising. Do you typically socialise only with family and other priests, or do you typically socialise with the lay community?

Would it be acceptable to go for a coffee with a friend that isn't a priest? Are you expected to stay away from places like bars or sports stadiums outside of priestly duties? Did you feel some distance grow between you and the friends you already had during/after seminary and ordination?

Please delete if not appropriate, this is something I have been genuinely curious about for a while.

I have a pretty severe dustmite allergy and live in an area with a lot of calima (dust carried in the air from the desert) meaning that regular cleaning of my house is essential so that I'm not coughing and sneezing constantly.

I'm looking at tbe labels on my pillows and all of the little pictures with crosses over them are there, implying that I should neither wash them by hand or in the washing machine. How do you wash them?

Would it be acceptable to allow an Anglican cleric to give a blessing to our baby? We sometimes attend events (but not mass, which we regularly attend at a Spanish-speaking Catholic church) at an anglican church with the local British/American community as there is very little English-speaking catholic presence where we live and an anglican cleric is usually present. From what I have seen they are very respectful and always ask permission from parents before giving blessings to children. Does it make a difference if the priest is male or female? And if necessary what would be the most appropriate way to respectfully refuse?

So, pretty random and probably silly question. I work at a school and got called into the IT department and told off for installing firefox on my work laptop. I was told that it's a myth that Edge is slower/less secure than other browsers and that it's the only browser allowed on work devices for security reasons. The department has a block on installing and using any other browser which hadn't been enabled on devices in my name due to an oversight.

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Does anybody have any idea why the school would do this? I've been told my whole life that Explorer/Edge is a liability and that most workplaces discourage it due to safety reasons. In fact, the last school I worked at had Firefox and Chrome installed on every device and told us only to use Edge if what we were trying to do didn't work on the other browsers.