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If you’re claustrophobic and can’t intone through the confessional window, there’s the always-accessible portal at Absolution-Online. Though it’s not officially endorsed by The Church, it’s quite easy to navigate, although it comes with a disclaimer that insists you contact your priest if you’re uncomfortable with the service. If you aren’t Catholic, or if you prefer to sublimate your venial sins into collage, you know you can always contribute to the beautiful index at PostSecret…if you haven’t already.
What does tax season have to do with online confessionals?
-or for Becky-
In what manner is the annual occasion of impost and excise affiliated with the catholic sacrament of penance?
posted by Jason! on 3-30-2007 at 3:24 pm
i was really just thinking of amnesty issues…
posted by becky on 3-30-2007 at 6:27 pm
that mention of post secret…post secret is one of the most amazing things i’ve ever seen. the sheer scope of human emotion covered by the project is amazing in itself.
posted by ian on 3-31-2007 at 1:39 pm
I went to online absolution to confess all the sins I’ve happily committed since the last time I was in a confessional.
I did not include multiple examples (ie, each instance of fornication was all conglomerated into once click of the fornication tab).
Turns out, I should (if I weren’t a Satan worshipping Heathen) recite 2,717 Hail Marys and 171 Our Fathers. Further, I should fast for a total of 11 weeks.
I’m curious what the results would be like had I included each of the hundreds of incidences of some of the sins….
posted by M Schroeder on 4-2-2007 at 11:10 am
I wish they had this when I was a kid.
Murder only gets you 5 days of fasting, by the way. Not that I’m a murderer, but I was curious.
It’s strangely curious that minor gluttony carried the same penalty.
posted by Karen on 4-27-2007 at 2:55 pm