Disturbing Questions

Ruthridge was terribly confused now instead of bewildered and shocked. Why in the world was Father Shane telling him to leave the church? They both loved 'the place' and looked after it like it was a surrogate child. It was odd for Father Shane to tell him this, even odder that he should as a ghost, and even odder that he should put himself through such obvious pain to get the message across. What was trying to stop him. Was he evil now? Was he trying to say there was no point being in the church, that he had wasted his life as a priest? Maybe the priest had found out in the afterlife there was no God?