Well, that's one less....
Oh, Lord..."Renshaw said that in his 40 years of hearing confessions he didn't think anyone had told him a sin."
Oh my!
If he did not consider the cofessions, confessions of "sin", then he probably didn't forgive them. He probably told them there was nothing to forgive.
Does this mean that those sins remain with the penitents? Or is it good enough if they just confess their sins to God? IOW can God forgive their sins himself? Or is this an essential function of the priesthood?