Confessions on the geaux

- When I got back from Rome,
I was assigned to a hospital, my first assignment. We did a lot of work
with the sick and dying, and they had certain ambulances
called Critical Care Units. And of course, I was always in the ICU, or the MICU, SICU, the different... Or PICU for the pediatrics.

I said, "Boy, it'd be nice to have an SCU, "a Spiritual Care Unit,
where we could kind of go, "like the ice cream truck, "where we kind of get
known in the community "and go out in the hood or something, "have some hot links on Saturday morning "and engage people." Then, when Pope Francis
called the Year of Mercy, I went and I just Googled
"used ambulances for sale" and at eBay came up with a bunch of them. So I found one that was affordable, I bid on it, I got it
for $4,000 something, and put it in service right then at the beginning of the Year of Mercy. We've had it on the road
for about a year and a half, over 4,000 confessions. But it's been very effective.

It actually surprised me. I didn't really believe it'd been that effective
for the sacrament. - And what it is is a pill bottle and when you open up the prescription that the confessor will give you, there's a pill bottle
with a rosary inside. The prescription actually calls
for one a day at 3:00 p.M.

- People that have been
away for 30, 40 years, they feel intimidated to
go in the back of a church and maybe feel like they're gonna be like, "Well, where you been all these years?" And the time that we have
set up for confessions is not that conducive to working people and the society that we have today... So just showing up where people are at. - He parks in different areas, the local gym in Lafayette, the Subway in New Iberia, hospitals. He posted on Facebook he was at the shopping mall for Christmas and people go, they go to confession, whereas normally they
probably wouldn't have.

- At least the actual
grace works in the moment, they see it, they think about it, it pricks their conscience. They may not come now,
but then they'll get back, people who have been away up to 50 years..