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1 posted on 02/22/2007 11:22:23 AM PST by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

Confessing another's faults is the highest duty we owe to the truth, as Ambrose Bierce once said [quoted from memory].


2 posted on 02/22/2007 11:24:29 AM PST by GSlob
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"Clergy say the rise in therapy and self-help may be a contributing factor in the decline in Catholics' going to confession."

I think it's more the denial of sin.


3 posted on 02/22/2007 12:51:48 PM PST by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: Alex Murphy

Always a line at our church, which has confession seven days a week, unlike the Novus Ordo parishes where you can't find a confessor except by appointment.


4 posted on 02/22/2007 7:13:31 PM PST by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: Alex Murphy
According to Ms Gibbs, watching internet pornography is the most common baggage unloaded to priests

How would she know?

10 posted on 02/23/2007 11:56:22 PM PST by BlackVeil
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