Father Urban's failings in Morte d'Urban

It's pretty clear, now about 3/4 through reading J.F. Powers's Morte d'Urban (1962) that the eponymous Father Urban is a pompous suck-up and not nearly as clever or well-respected as he imagines. Father U has spent much of his time in the priesthood traveling a circuit centered on Chicago, giving talks about his order (the Clementines!) and supposedly inspiring people to support the church. His superiors remove him from this cushy job and assign him to a remote parish; he sees this as jealousy and internal politics - but it may be that they have seen what we readers begin to see, that Father U is far too attracted to the comforts of the good life and that he is a windbag, with few or no original ideas, and that perhaps they're getting bad reports about his speechifying. In particular, Father U sucks up to the wealthy donor Billy Cosgrove, who has all the markings of a Chicago gangster trying to buy penance through his donations - but maybe he's just a rich businessman. Either way, he's extremely rude and bossy to his subordinates and to just about anyone else who crosses his path - and he spends his $ like a plutocrat. An example: He didn't like the old pickup truck that Father U borrowed to take them on a fishing trip, so he decides on the spot to buy a car. He goes into a dealership, points to a car on the floor, and says he'll take it. When they say it will take a day or so to get plates and papers he insists they do it in an hour or the deal's off - making everyone else miserable just so he can show his (his money's) authority. This is not the sort of good Christian whom the priest should befriend - he should see through that attitude and try to raise Billy to a higher level of morality or just walk away, but Father U is too drawn to the good life that Billy's $ puts on offer. He's a man who struggles w/ the internal politics of the daily life of running a diocese, but he misses the whole point of being a man of the cloth.