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A report came across the police scanner of a possibly “suicidal subject.”

Why, I asked a coworker, are there more reports like this here than anywhere else I’ve ever worked?

“Catholic guilt,” he said.

“What’s that?” I asked

It’s the feeling, he said, that no matter what you do, you can never be good enough.

Well, that’s true, I said, but isn’t that the point of grace?