A Pastoral Letter to the Clergy, Religious and Liaty of the Archdiocese of Washington
by the Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, S.T.D., Archbishop of Washington
Some time ago as I was standing in line at the airport a young man about 35 years old asked me if I could explain something to him. He claimed that he had more or less been raised as a Catholic and that Catholics "do something that helps them get rid of all the excess baggage they carry around so that they can start again brand new." I said I assumed that he was talking about the sacrament of Confession. His reply was that he knew we had something like that; he just did not know how to use it. He had never been properly instructed nor had he participated in this "Catholic way of getting rid of excess baggage."
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