Father Dan Reehil
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Maybe we should make a one-hour fast before, and now that's what it is.
Okay.
Because that was a man-made thing.
I was, because I was the first born and didn't know anything, I was pretty naive about everything.
Rode my bike, played kickball, baseball, swam on the swim team, you know, played football when I, peewee football then in high school.
Mostly just sports and we went outside all day.
When it was summer, you just left for the whole day, you came back for dinner.
And you prayed with all the kids on your block.
It was just different, it was completely different than it is now.
It was never a chore.
I went to church with my family.
And we could actually walk to church.
We were that close to the church, a few blocks.
But as fate would have it, I was molested by a priest when I was 11.
And that changed my trajectory for a long time.
I just said, I'm never going back to that place, to a church.
And I kind of stuck to it.
And I kept it hidden until I was in college.
And then I told my parents what had happened.
And then it started to make sense because I changed dramatically, as you can imagine your personality would when...