[EN1 Sailor]

"No, I reckon my “s” key hitting finger just got stuck."

BTDT. I still have a sticking shift key from reading some post here and spewing a soda on my keyboard.

"They could just cut out the middle men and have only albino monk assassins hear confessions. Think of the ultimate power the Church could wield then!"

That almost makes sense, in a weird hollywood sort of way, but I think it's ALL about the middle man, else your "humint" would suffer.

[Quix]

Particularly power over sheeple . . . . and other "uncultured, uneducated, unbrainwashed" folks whenever possible . . . but at least over the sheeple.

The Magicsterical of the powermongering Vatican pretend-Mary-Ishtar-Goddess Cult strikes again.

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HOWEVER

IN GENERAL . . . while I think the Vatican folks mangle confession and forgiveness rather wholesale out of Biblical whack

most Proddy groups don't get to the first base on it.

SCRIPTURE SAYS

CONFESS YOUR FAULTS ONE TO ANOTHER [not an elite priestly caste of powermongers]

THAT YOU MAY BE HEALED.

How many Proddy sermons have you heard on that?