The "vigar" is not obsessed with condoms. Rather, the vicar received e-mail from a chum in Lincs which used the euphemism "french letter" for condom and merely wondered, as all us word types often wonder, why we say it like that.

Should you prefer me to redirect this thread to a more refined (and even ecclesiological) subject, I am ready to speak to why the little silver bowl used to catch the water with which the celebrant rinses his fingers before mass is called "lavabo" ... but that might not be as interesting to as many.