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Paul Morrissey, O.S.A., is a priest in residence at St. Augustine Church in Philadelphia, Penn. He served as a Catholic chaplain at the Philadelphia Prison from 2007 to 2019. This article has been excerpted from his forthcoming memoir Touched by God: Confessions of a Prison Chaplain.
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The whole dynamic of hearing confessions in prison is incredible. I use this awesome role of confessor to encourage them to foster the spark of God’s love for them, not to waste it.