@tenderfoot,
Why "must" I have been an altar boy? I don't understand how you have arrived at such a ridiculous conclusion. It can't possibly be your scientific training unless American style scientific training is different to mine which the reliance on such assertions strongly suggests is the case.
I suppose you must think that the term "altar boy" is belittling with it's sneaky hint that I "must" also have been
diddled, as fm styles being boned up the arse by a priest, in his usual knitting circlese.
What I got from those priests, all members of one specific order of priests, and not a well known one, was what galactic shitholes schools are which they were so aware of that they minimised the "schoolistic" aspects of school so that we weren't much damaged by it. They even went so far as to find the order's champion twat to teach science which had the effect they must have intended. Sport was the main thing. And art. Or Art.
There were no girls. Parents were allowed in for certain events to provide rounds of applause and funds for the library which was more catholic in its range than most school libraries I have seen since which have been denuded of anything interesting. Immersion in PC libraries is the only explanation I can think of for being unable to understand that rumpy-pumpy is what this subject is all about at bottom. Or being unable to understand why Doreen in Prisoner in Cell Block H, an Aussie farce which ran for years, was sexier than Angelina Jolie. By miles. And a thousand times funnier.