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  • Confession booths go silent

    06/24/2007 12:58:20 PM PDT · by Alex Murphy · 157 replies · 2,132+ views
    The Times Union ^ | June 24, 2007 | MARC PARRY
    Albany -- Saturday afternoon Mass at St. Catherine of Siena draws 400 people. The confession period beforehand draws two. The second makes it just before closing time. It's been about three months since Mariam O'Brien's last confession, and a few days since she skipped Mass. The 84-year-old shuts the door and enters a soothing room with a red carpet, a box of tissues and a priest, the Rev. Kenneth Doyle, who confesses that hearing confessions is one of his favorite duties. She steps out minutes later. "I feel like the Lord is listening to me through the priest," O'Brien says...