The Bittersweet Joy of Forgiveness

The Bittersweet Joy of Forgiveness

By: Patrick Kaler, CSsR

April 1977

A Priest looks at the new confession. Most people thinking of the long confessional line, would date this as pre-Vatican II. And ever since that time many pastors have been asking: “What caused that line of penitents to shrink almost to the vanishing point?”