My Dad (old regular RQMS) was a poor sort of RC, never remember him going to Mass once with Mum and me.
But he told me how impressed his troops (in Nigeria) were, when they contrasted the lives of the C.E. and O.D. missionaries (on a few year's "tour", "accompanied", and then went home), with the Catholic priest who (in those days) went out alone, stayed all his life, and was buried in his little RC Mission, having followed his Master to a lonely death.
Danny.