Are you saying you can't find a priest to hear your confession? (I'm not sure I understand). Even in the reprobate diocese in which I reside, there are Franciscan monks who hear confession. One need only look a bit harder or ask others, to find them.
Last week, our pastor advised the entire congregation that the Sacrament of Reconciliation would be held on a certain day at a specific time. (Confession is also available up until 1/2 before mass on Sundays). Not surprisingly, the same small group showed up for Reconciliation. This afternoon, our parish held a Good Friday meatless meal. One of the women, who has 3 small children, told Father that she wanted to go to confession. Not a problem; he told her to meet him at Church 1 hour before tonight's service. She left the children in the care of the other mothers and followed him over to Church. There is no hill or mountain, that is insurmountable.
“Are you saying you can’t find a priest to hear your confession? “
That’s right. Matter of fact, I think they deliberately minimize the availability of the sacrament.
To continue my rant, another thing that really burns me is the way they don’t return calls, and treat you like a red-headed stepchild if you ask for communion outside the tiny bit of time unreliably set aside on Saturday afternoons...when some of us have to work.
Their attitude is, “We’re wonderful, and if you don’t agree, you suck.”
I haven’t tried to get an article published, because the people who would publish it would only be trying to hurt the Church...but it’s starting to look more and more attractive.
And to continue my rant even further...
“There is no hill or mountain, that is insurmountable.”
The priests should not be setting up well-nigh insurmountable hills and mountains between ordinary jerks like me and the sacraments. They ought to be at least track-downable, rather than vanishing without a trace and not returning calls. At the very least, the miserly least, there could be one priest in the whole parish “on duty” to take calls.