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On Religion: Many Catholics no longer go to confession: does it matter?
In the movies, the penitent enters a confession booth, kneels and whispers to a priest behind a lattice screen: “Forgive me, father, for I have sinned.” This drama was, for centuries, at the center of Catholic life. But in recent decades, the number of Americans who go to confession has plunged to a shocking degree that church leaders have struggled to explain. But Father David Michael Moses knows what happened during Holy Week this year, when he spent 65 hours “in the box” at his home parish, Christ the Good Shepherd, in Spring, Texas, and at St. Joseph near downtown Houston. In all, he heard 1,167 confessions. “We are talking about a lot of sin, and lots of grace,” he said. “It’s about off

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