I've always suspected these laws are written by someone who has never been to confession. The only identifying thing we announce is that we're a sinner, which isn't helpful to the police other than ruling out two people who have walked the earth.. If you did want to use a name, you could easily use a pseudonym, perhaps using the name of …
I've always suspected these laws are written by someone who has never been to confession. The only identifying thing we announce is that we're a sinner, which isn't helpful to the police other than ruling out two people who have walked the earth.. If you did want to use a name, you could easily use a pseudonym, perhaps using the name of your hated enemy down the street and get him/her in trouble. And wouldn't churches get around this by ending face-to-face confession? You can't go to the police station and say, "A gentleman with a nasally voice said he was George Clooney." All of this simply seems ridiculous to me. What am I missing with these legal efforts?
What you are missing, Nathan, is the galactic stupidity of much of the British ruling class. The Covid epidemic particularly exposed it of course, but it inevitably pops out on numerous occasions.
My favourite, among countless examples, was the day that Matt Hancock, the Health Minister, got extra angry about our alleged failure to obey the idiotic lockdown rules. He declared that he would lock us up 24/7 unless we were more compliant. How he proposed to do this without the collapse of society and mass deaths was never explained.
Matt was then caught breaking the lockdown rules to meet his mistress and cheat on his wife. He was later seen in his new career on reality TV eating bugs in the Australian jungle.
It seems equally obvious to me that perpetrators of this particular sin would just stop confessing it. That either means they stop going to confession altogether, or it means they go to confession consciously withholding grave sin. In either case, they stay in their sins--all of them, this one included, which is in no way an improvement.
I've always suspected these laws are written by someone who has never been to confession. The only identifying thing we announce is that we're a sinner, which isn't helpful to the police other than ruling out two people who have walked the earth.. If you did want to use a name, you could easily use a pseudonym, perhaps using the name of your hated enemy down the street and get him/her in trouble. And wouldn't churches get around this by ending face-to-face confession? You can't go to the police station and say, "A gentleman with a nasally voice said he was George Clooney." All of this simply seems ridiculous to me. What am I missing with these legal efforts?
What you are missing, Nathan, is the galactic stupidity of much of the British ruling class. The Covid epidemic particularly exposed it of course, but it inevitably pops out on numerous occasions.
My favourite, among countless examples, was the day that Matt Hancock, the Health Minister, got extra angry about our alleged failure to obey the idiotic lockdown rules. He declared that he would lock us up 24/7 unless we were more compliant. How he proposed to do this without the collapse of society and mass deaths was never explained.
Matt was then caught breaking the lockdown rules to meet his mistress and cheat on his wife. He was later seen in his new career on reality TV eating bugs in the Australian jungle.
It seems equally obvious to me that perpetrators of this particular sin would just stop confessing it. That either means they stop going to confession altogether, or it means they go to confession consciously withholding grave sin. In either case, they stay in their sins--all of them, this one included, which is in no way an improvement.