Benedict urges change of tack on confession
- With fewer and fewer Catholics going to confession,
Pope Benedict XVI urged priests and seminarians to make the sacrament
of penance a time for sinners to feel God's merciful love.
"Sin does not lie at the heart of the sacramental celebration, but
rather God's mercy, which is infinitely greater than each of our
faults," he said March 7.
The pope spoke to about 700...