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The time I yelled in the confessional At aleteia.com Elizabeth Scalia recalled the “strangest Confession of my life” – where she and her confessor both started yelling. “It got loud,” she wrote. “If people were waiting, I was pretty sure they could hear us hollering through the thick wooden doors.”

She had been in “one of those funks” that had made her feel both rebellious and hopeless. She had missed a holy day of obligation and then a Sunday Mass. But when she was finally able to go to Confession, she said, “I was surprised to encounter a priest who wondered why I was bothering him with it”.