“...I was once kicked out of the confessional as a 9 year old for getting on the priest’s nerves about something.”
Oh dear! I think my Irish grandmother would admire you for that.
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.