People walk up to a shed where a priest hears their confession. A boom box playing Gregorian chants provides some privacy.
Coronavirus has canceled religious gatherings but hasn’t stopped people from wanting to confess, especially as Easter approaches; ‘We don’t get this time off’BOONTON, N. J.—Every other day this week, the Rev. Daniel O’Mullane has walked out of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a gray stone church with a neogothic bell tower, and into an 8-by-10 tool shed out front.
Coronavirus has canceled in-person worship and thrown Easter and Passover into disarray. It has not stopped the sacred and intimate Catholic sacrament of confession. It has simply moved it to a plastic shed.
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