11.   As a Rent a Priest, McDonough does weddings, funerals, and nursing home visits, and hears confessions.

12.   But it has produced a healthy outpouring of discussion about why people collaborated and allowed many Stasi victims to hear personal confessions from their spies.

13.   But most of his time is spent counseling circus workers, hearing confessions, celebrating Mass and performing marriages, baptisms and funerals before a colorful congregation.

14.   From time to time he was barred from celebrating Mass or hearing confession.

15.   He looked straight at her, gave her a friendly pat, and heard her confession with the posture of ordinary conversation.

16.   He denied that he had heard their confessions.

17.   He says Mass, hears confessions and leads retreats.

18.   Hoehne then asked if Hopp would hear his confession.

19.   In the premiere episode, star Kevin Anderson, as Father Ray, hears the confession of a pregnant woman who seeks his advice on abortion.

20.   Like a priest hearing confessions, he learns or deduces incriminating facts about his police patients that he cannot divulge to concerned authorities like district attorneys.