In the late 50s & early 60s, you had to know your stuff in the Confessional! One slip up of “Forgive me Father, I have sinned...” and whammo!
I recommend to you Hugh Leonard’s brilliant memoir “Home Before Night” about his childhood in Dublin in the 1930s. It was the basis for the movie “Da.” It is an hilarious book about all his childish misadventures with priests and nuns and policemen and boy scout leaders - told with great humor and forgiveness. You can buy it in paperback on Amazon.
“It is an hilarious book about all his childish misadventures with priests and nuns and policemen and boy scout leaders ...”
I’ve told this story about my grandmother here before, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself.
When I was about 10 or so she took me aside (as she often did to impart some wisdom) and advised that there were 2 groups of people to avoid if possible, and the reason for each was the same. She said that these were priests and policemen, because they were never around when you needed them, but always looking over your shoulder when you’d rather they didn’t.
The last time I told this one of our fellow freepers was insistent that this marked my grandmother as a big liberal, but I aver that she was a true libertarian.
She would have loved this place and fit right in with even our rowdiest members.