Let's get back to Candice in Texas.

Candice, thank you for your patience.

We had just gotten started and we had to take a break.

So can you sort of restate for the benefit of people who didn't hear what you said the first

time around the situation that you experienced in the confessional?

Yes, so I went from confession and I told the priest all of my friends.

And then my last confession was that I wasn't married in the church and I told the priest all of my friends and then my last confession was that I wasn't

married in the church and I would like to get up and adopt from my sins so I could be in communion

with Christ and receive communion and he told me that we had a big problem on our hands and that

he could not absolve me from my sins but I need to go home and speak with my husband about living

as brother and sister.

Right.

And then I could come back tomorrow or the next day and speak with another priest or I can speak

with him and discuss about being forgiven.

But I asked him before I left if he could, you know, forgive me for some of my sins.

And he said, no, that he could not forgive me for any of my sins. And I had to leave without being forgiven. And so I went home, spoke with my husband, went back the next day, and saw another priest. And that priest said that, I told him what happened. He said, well, that priest was all within his rights to do that, but I don't do that.

We believe in a merciful God, and we want you to keep coming back to confession. So I'm going to go ahead and absolve you from your sins.

As long as you stay in communion with Christ, you're free to go to communion. If you mess up or if something happens, then come back, please.

And like I said, I was kind of defeated the first day.

I almost didn't go back.

I had, you know, something to think about.

And I said, I need to call Patrick.

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