Fulton Sheen is reputed to have said, â??Hearing nunsâ?? confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.â? I canâ??t remember where I read it or why it stuck in my mind, but the words came back to me as I waited in line to make my first confession in more than 20 years.
It had taken several days to gear myself up for Confession, but when I arrived at the National Shrine in Walsingham a coachload of nuns had just disembarked and got to the confessionals ahead of me. I was at the back of a very long queue, and the nuns were taking their time. â??What can nuns possibly have to confess?â? I thought testily, before telling myself off for ignorance and impatience. I silently recalled Sheenâ??s words. After all that nun popcorn, the priest wouldnâ??t know what had hit him when I walked in with my confession.
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