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Selwyn Duke is spot-on as usual. Friday my daughter came home from the University of Illinois to attend her high school's Homecoming weekend festivities. She told me that The Cardinal Newman Society (which is strong at U of I) led an
outdoor confession in the quad area at the college. There were six priests there, dispersed over a large area, some with screens and some face-to-face. There was a huge photograph of Jesus displayed in the center. There were students that are part of The Newman Center that were on hand to answer any questions regarding Confession to those passing by. While there were six priests "working," there was only eight people confessing at the time. But as Mother Teresa of Calcutta has said, when asked why she does what she does because she is helping so few of the world's poor, "I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one."
As to U of I's attempt at righting the world's woes by reaching out to a few kids on campus, my daughter said, "You should of seen it, mom. I went to Confession. It was so cool."