The tone of that makes a penitent feel real good. You sense it with some, most actually. I hope God hasn't lost his capacity for taking a personal interest in our lives as the individuals we are and not "type" us or put us in little file categories like this priest has.
It's only human that priests would develop that disinerest, callousness, or whatever the physic mechanism is that goes on in yourself when things get too routine.
People in the medical profession get like that, too. You always remember the ones who seemed to take an interest in you as a unique individual and not as a case #.
That priest would have done better for me this morning to write something different.
Just some food for thought. Maybe a little exercise in role reversal or something might do wonders for his soul . . .
There is no need for any response more personal than that of a priest to an anonymous penitent. The kind of attention you would prefer is wholly unreasonable, given the number of confessions some priests are obliged to hear. It would drain the life's-blood out of any good confessor.