Father Dan Reehil

I never went.

I stopped.

And I would just tell my parents, I'm walking to church, I'm going to this mass, bye.

And then I would go hang out at the parking lot or the playground.

And I did this, you know, I went to Catholic education my whole life, grammar school, high school, college was even Catholic, but I did not go to church.

I didn't participate in any of the sacraments.

I'm not the best example because what I did is not the right way to go.

I just shut down God and his church.

I kind of went my own way.

I rebelled.

I became a really bad kid.

You know, my parents didn't know what was going on, but they knew something is wrong.

But back then, nobody even dreamed this was a possibility.

We're talking the 70s.

So they just kept grounding me because I was always out partying and drinking and having fun with the crazy kids.

And college was my ticket out of there where I just get away from this whole thing.

But that's where I finally went into it and realized this has to be dealt with.

You can't just go through life like this.

And I kind of...

just looked at it objectively.