April 9, 2012

Priests-in-Training Fear the Confessional

Theresa Vargas, Washington Post

Steven Rohlfs sets the scene. It’s a Saturday afternoon and a line has formed outside the church confessional. An elderly woman walks into the screen-divided booth and kneels.

“Bless me, father, for I have sinned,” Rohlfs croaks in his best old lady voice. “It’s been two weeks since my last confession.”

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