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While I was in seminary, one of the things our rector, Bishop Robert Barron, instilled in us with absolute clarity was this: After you are ordained a Catholic priest, when someone asks you for confession, the answer is yes. Period. I consider it to be a foundational rule in my life as a priest, and as it turns out, it has proven practical.
We Baby Boomers tend to think about death a whole lot more than we did a few years ago. I am reminded of that in some recent communication with one of my older brothers to whom I am very close and who is in his final days.