“A few decades ago,
nobody believed in the confession of sins except the Church. Today
everyone believes in confession – with this difference: some believe in
confessing their own sins; others believe in confessing other people’s
sins. The popularity of psychoanalysis has nearly convinced everyone of
the necessity of some kind of confession for peace of mind. This is
another instance of how the world, which
threw Christian truths into the wastebasket in the nineteenth century,
is pulling them out in isolated secularized form in the twentieth
century, meanwhile deluding itself into believing that it has made a
great discovery. The world found it could not get along without some
release for its inner unhappiness. Once it had rejected confession and
denied both God and guilt, it had to find a substitute.”
- Fulton Sheen (Footprints in a Darkened Forest)
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