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To: gubamyster
In Europe, confessionals are built so that the penitent never enters a box at all; he confesses through a grille into the box containing the priest.

Incidentally, who ever said that when a penitent wishes to confess through a screen, he must also kneel? Nobody. Yet, I have never seen a confessional or "reconciliation room" in which the penitent who wants anonymity is not forced to use a kneeler. There's no reason that those confessing through a screen could not sit in a chair, just like those confessing "face-to-face."

13 posted on 08/12/2002 9:31:23 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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14 posted on 08/12/2002 10:06:18 AM PDT by Free the USA
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