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Rev. Craig Groeschel, the founder of LifeChurch, which manages mysecret.tv, said the accounts of anguish and guilt that have poured into the Web site have stunned him and affirmed his belief in the need for confession.

But the accounts of anguish and guilt that have poured into mysecret.tv have stunned him, Mr. Groeschel said, and affirmed his belief in the need for confession.

"And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained." - John 20:22-23

For this reason, our Lord instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation, where sins may be cleansed and forgotten.

Confessions gone wild -- poor souls confess, but have no way to do penance or receive absolution.

There's a reason that Christ instituted the Sacrament of Confession/Reconciliation.

As an Episcopalian, I dutifully recited the "General Confession" every Sunday of my life . . . but I never 'got anything out of it' so to speak. When I left the confessional after my first confession in the Catholic Church, I was walking on air. The tremendous relief of having done something positive to get right with God is unbelievable.

. . . try it, you'll like it!

When I see this news article, it does give my hope because it is a sign that the Holy Spirit is sending "jolts" of needed inspiration to Christians and those who want to be Christians of the need to be reconciled to God thru Christ. Often our weak human nature, plus with the world and the enemy, causes us to fall into sin that ends up creating webs like spiders of sinful living.

On the online part of confession, I would feel very unconfortable going online to confess my sins. This is what is the beauty of the Sacrement of Penance is that there is the privacy part. Also in the Latin rite, there is in the begining a penitial rite for the forgiveness of venial sins ( mortal sins need direct confessing ). That people are doing it online and that non-Catholic/Orthodox Christians are doing this shows that there is growing movement, even slowly to the starts of full Christian unity.

Off topic I just want to add that I got to see the EWTN interview of the Lebanesse Cardinal Sfar.

Also a question. Does the Maronite rite have an opening penitial rite to the divine liturgy like that in the Latin rite? Thanks ahead.

"Many women speak of their regrets over having had abortions.

My wife and I being actively involved with the pro-life ministry at our parish, this one really touched me.

Abortion puts a tremendous burden on one's soul and does a lot of spiritual damage. Confession has helped so many of them to heal the brokenness they feel inside over the act of abortion. It's painful to see them go online seeking their spiritual needs when it's readily available at the Confessional in the Church.

On the positive side, it could be the ground work for a step in the direction of going to the Church.