[gunsequalfreedom]

Idiot. What would cause him to do a stupid thing like that? It is incidents like this that make the Catholic confessional booth seem like a far better idea.

[GeronL]

Public confession is better IMO

[Slings and Arrows]

> Idiot. What would cause him to do a stupid thing like that?

Repentance?

[metmom]

Idiot. What would cause him to do a stupid thing like that? It is incidents like this that make the Catholic confessional booth seem like a far better idea.

He's not a idiot. He did the right thing and it's far harder to stand in front of a whole congregation and admit your sin than to do it behind closed doors so no one else knows.

Private confession is the easy way out.

If his heart was that bad, something else would have got him anyway.

Besides, if God wanted him around, he would have lived.

[redleghunter]

It is incidents like this that make the Catholic confessional booth seem like a far better idea.

Like with Teddy Kennedy? Now there's a deathbed confession for you. He may have confessed to God and a priest (which is very very good) but did TK have the intestinal fortitude to apologize or ask forgiveness to the family of Mary Jo Kopechne? That would be akin to this bishop confessing to his congregation, friends and family. The bishop did so publicly as we have a record of it. Did TK publicly confess? I don't know if he did.

[NELSON111]

Yep...it is silly to follow the scripture when it speaks of confessing sin to each other...and repenting before the church.

/sarcasm