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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.