Creative Minority Reader: The Mean Priest on Missing Mass

Fr. John Hollowell:

I've had a very similar conversation with several different people at multiple parish assignments. The same person will ask two questions maybe a few days or weeks or months apart: 1) "Father, why do you talk about missing Mass and mortal sin? It's so off-putting and mean." and then, at some other point: 2) "Father, why have my kids stopped going to Mass?" Hello!