It's a distraction technique. The *See, everybody else is doing it, too, so we're not so bad after all* mentality.
Confessing sin means an ability to acknowledge it and take responsibility for it something, it seems, that many Catholics are incapable of doing as opposed to denying it, which they have lots of practice with (with a few exceptions).
There are a lot of posters who want the entire Catholic Church to take full responsibility individually for all the sins of any of them. I have come to the conclusion that this is an article of belief for all protestant churches (cults, sects, store-front preachers, whatever). Not only that, they want each of us individual Catholics to take responsibility back into the sixties, seventies, and through today.
They apparently want us to think of sacerdotal robes as "dresses" and to be ashamed of the beauty of our cathedrals. They want us to accept their perverted view of our faith, to throw out our Holy Traditions in favor of their "every man is a pope" view, to give up the holiness of the Eucharist for grape juice and crackers.
Since they did it, they want the rest of the Church to do it, in spite of the fact that they have revealed themselves to have none of the fruits of the spirit -- only hatred, vicious spite, judgementalism, lukewarm so-called "Christianity" (really Bibleolatry). They all interpret Scripture differently, for themselves, and they think that the Holy Spirit is guiding each of their heretical ideas, insisting that Catholics must agree with them.
Although Scripture says, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" the only sin they acknowledge is Catholic sin. The only falling short is done by the Catholic Church. The "all" apparently excludes them, and their filthy sins are hidden by their anonymity and refusal to identify their particular cults, lest they be shamed the way they try to shame others.
Not at all. I believe instead it is a reference to your hypocricy.
As opposed to the "all evil comes from Rome, everything bad is the fault of the Catholics, Catholics are the only real sinners, unlike us Protestants, who are completely without fault" mentality?
Rev. Timothy Kesicki, head of the Chicago Province, reiterated regret that the Jesuits did not do enough to stop McGuire.