Have you ever had an inner emotional pain that would not go away? A depression that would come and go in waves? Sometimes it seemed like everything was completely normal and then it would come upon you totally unexpected. Perhaps it was related to something that happened in your childhood, something so awful that you couldn’t tell anyone, not even your spouse or your best friend because in reality you weren’t really sure you believed it yourself. Sometimes it would sneak into your dreams, dreams so bad that you wanted to wake but could not. But then during the day it was even worse, the wounded child inside you crying out, wanting to be healed.

Maybe it has something to do with awful past sins that you committed long ago but because you weren’t Catholic and had no confessional to go to, y…