Sometimes he would close his eyes and grab the back of your neck firmly while you confessed. “Priests would set up two chairs close to each other in various darkened corners of the quad, turn on music at a low volume to muddle the sound of confessions, and then you would basically just get right up in a priest’s face and whisper your sins. He writes that after-mass confessions at his high school weren’t held in a curtained box like is so often depicted in movies, so the priest and confessor sat face to face. Rannells describes the incident where he went to a priest in his 60s who he refers to as Father Dominic. He writes that he was struggling with aspects of his sexuality and a relationship with an older man and sought out a priest's guidance during confession. But it was at his high school, Creighton Prep in Omaha, where a priest took advantage of Rannells. In an excerpt titled 'It’s Never the Priest You Want to Kiss,' the Book of Mormon star chronicles the nuns and priests he encountered throughout his Catholic school education.
In his memoir, Rannells shares that a Catholic priest shoved his tongue into his mouth when Rannells was a high-school-age altar boy, according to an excerpt in Vulture. And it arrives at a time when the Catholic Church is reckoning with even more sexual abuse scandals.
Broadway star Andrew Rannells's memoir Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood was released Tuesday.
