Well Kerry is a little bit closer to stepping into that confessional booth then.
I wonder if he would tell the priest the truth about the senator assassination plot meeting he can't recall being at, where his Vietnam Veterans Against the War comrades actually voted on a plan to murder several US senators who were in favor of winning the war. How could someone possibly not remember something like that. Meanwhile, the FBI had evidence he was in fact there. Kerry's people responded with something like "oh well, those were difficult times back then".