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In a Sunday Times survey of 40 parishes, 35 reported a decline in the 5)_________ of people going to confession. Only priests serving elderly “conventional Catholics” had seen 6)_________ change.
“I allocate 30 minutes each Saturday 7)_________ principle, even if nobody wants to come”, said Father John Cullen, a priest at St. Anne’s church, Liverpool. “Six years ago you would get quite a lot, but there has been a noticeable drop.”
According to Murray White, deputy editor of The Catholic Herald, many Catholics now seek a chat 8)_________ than formal confession. “In many ways the priest is 9)_________ a surrogate therapist,” he said. “This generation 10)_________ to want something less regimented.”
David Lodge, the “Catholic agnostic” novelist who is typical of the new Catholicism - he goes to mass most Sundays, to confession never - sees the change 11)_________ “a silent revolution”.
The fall is greatest in smaller parishes. One 12)_________ is a desire for anonymity. “People are showing willingness to travel 50 miles to receive confession,” said Father Michael Seed, who gives absolution at Westminster Cathedral.
Other reasons for quiet confessionals 13)_________ the apparent futility of reciting shopping lists of sin, and disillusionment with curt priests. “Confessions are 14)_________ heard in the same way they were in 1975 and, sadly, a
lot of Catholics 15)_________ simply abandoned it,” said father Eddie Matthews of Holy Trinity church in Hammersmith, West London.
In Ireland, where confession has suffered while revelatory chat shows on radio have grown, some have a different opinion. For 16)_________ who have faith, confession is very healthy”, said Michael Mac Griel, a sociologist at Saint Patrick College, Maynooth. “Psychologists can get you to live with your guilt but they cannot remove it.”
A spokesman for the Catholic Church in England and Wales suggested that going to confession once a week might even be damaging. “Even if people come once a year, it gives them an 17)_________ to reflect on what sin is and makes it less 18)_________ an unwelcome ritual,” he said.
Edna O’Brien, the Catholic novelist 19)_________. “It should not be a 20)_________ of going into a box and doing a secret thing. It should be about feeling sorrow,” she said.
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