Follow the Scriptures.
His side started a fight on the field of whether the alleged article supported their contention that we or the Pope or somebody is a Marxist. Now they're bringing up confession. This obscures their having abandoned the battle field on which THEY arrayed their forces and where THEY invited us to contend.
They have fled, and are now sniping from some other place. We have won this field, but they won't admit it.