Expensive Sins

There was an island off the cast of Galway in Ireland, and it had only one Catholic church, which was not used much. In fact the priest from Ireland would come every few months to say Mass, baptize the babies and marry the lovely couples. One day the priest started to wonder what the parishioners do for confession. One of the representatives of the parish council told the priest, ‘well Father, we have to wait till you come here for confession. We cannot afford to go to the mainland Ireland by boat. It’s too expensive for venial sins and too risky for mortal sins!’