FATHER FORGIVE ME JOKE
An elderly priest invited a young priest over to dinner. During the meal,
the young priest couldn't help noticing how attractive and shapely the
housekeeper was. Over the course of the evening he started to wonder if there
was more between the elderly priest and the housekeeper than met the eye.
Reading the young priest's thoughts, the elderly priest volunteered, "I know
what you must be thinking, BUT I assure you, my relationship with my
housekeeper is purely professional."

About a week later, the housekeeper came to the elderly priest and said,
"Father, ever since the young Father came to dinner, I've been unable to find
the beautiful, silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose he took it, do you?"
"Well, I doubt it," the priest said ". . . BUT I'll write him a letter just to
be sure." So he sat down and wrote: "Dear Father, I'm not saying that you
'did' take the gravy ladle from my house, and I'm not saying you 'did not'
take the gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever
since you were here for dinner." Several days later, the elderly priest
received a letter from the young priest that read: "Dear Father, I'm not
saying that you 'do' sleep with your housekeeper, and I'm not saying that you
'do not' sleep with your housekeeper. But the fact remains that if you were
sleeping in your own bed, YOU would have found the gravy
ladle by now." Sweet dreams!