Vatican laments drop in confessions
Jun 2 11:41 AM US/Eastern
VATICAN CITY (AP) - A Vatican official is lamenting that many faithful no longer confess their sins, and says some confuse a psychologist's couch for a confessional booth.
Archbishop Mauro Piacenza has told Vatican Radio the sacrament of penance has been experiencing a "deep crisis" for decades. Piacenza, an official for the Vatican office on clergy, says fewer people distinguish between good and evil, and as a result don't go to confession.
The archbishop said in the interview Tuesday that if faithful don't have a sense of sin, they might "confuse" confession with "the couch of a psychologist or a psychiatrist."
He says the Vatican plans to publish this year a kind of handbook on confession to drum up enthusiasm among Catholics toward the sacrament.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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You know, a lot of people think that confession is just "for the big sins," but, if you go a long while without receiving this sacrament,-or even not that long- and receive it, you feel a liberation from sin and its chains, and you experience a closeness to God. It’s almost as if you're a well, and each time you sin, you lose a little water, but when you go to confession, you’re refilled to the brim, and even overflowing with a renewed source of vigor and energy to follow Christ’s teachings and ways. This may be a cliché’, but I think that the world would be a different- most likely better-place if more people went to confession.
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