And the penitenzieri and the "archive of sins" they have collected from the worst of the confessions made to priests over the centuries are a gift of a storyline; in an author's note at the end of the novel, Carrisi writes how they are, actually, real – the oldest ministry in the Vatican, they even, prosaically enough, have a website.
In many ways, this confession is a worst-case scenario of corroboration, starting with the body.
Eventually, I wrote a "confession" letter, detailing my worst "crimes," and read that over and over, too.
Sometimes the worst times are the best times for confessions: perspective is never more painfully sharp.
No matter what, as Catholics, we believe that through the Sacrament of Confession or Reconciliation, God forgives our worst sins.
I've heard confessions of terrorism, smuggling, adultery and – worst of all in the circumstances – incontinence, all on one trip through the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
For three decades after Stalin died, during an era when unpredictable terror had given way in the Soviet Union to more survivable repression, Hoxha's Albania continued the worst practices of an autocracy – purges, torture, abject confessions and executions.
The worst night was about a month after our mutual confession.
"For instance, our second gesture was a confession piece in which we were prompted to share the worst thing we'd ever done, or the worst thing we had ever thought about doing.
On anonymous confession website Whisper, users submitted some of the worst chat-up lines they'd been sent on the app.
