So this is a title to it, giving counsel in the confessional, exercising headship and prudence

as a servant of God's forgiveness.

This little anecdote with which I begin concerns, as Father mentioned,

soon to be blessed Fulton Sheen, and I thought I would have to explain who he was to some of you,

but in fact, of course, he's better known here perhaps than the past of the United States

because of his ministry during the early years of his priesthood.

Misunderstandings about the sacrament of penance and reconciliation arise easily,

as you may have discovered.

A brief notice that appeared in the people rubric of July 28, 1947, Time magazine, offers one example. So this is 47 Time Magazine.

The National News Weekly reported an exchange between the Ben Monsignor-Fortenian and announced

chief psychiatrist

at what is now closed St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City.

You may have seen the films from September 11th that were still open then

and received many of the victims.

This is Time Magazine in 1947.

Four months after Monsignor Fulton J. Chee delivered a sermon on psychoanalysis, the news slipped out that Roman Catholic Dr. Frank J. Curran

had resigned in protest as chief psychiatrist

of Manhattan's St. Vincent's Hospital.

Dr. Curran explained that he had vainly sought

a clarification from Monsignor Sheen.

Cotton Spellman, who was the ausbishop of New York at the time,

Cardinal Spellman's office promptly announced that, quote,

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