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DESCRIPTION:For I Have Sinned presents a social history of the practice of 
 confession by American Catholics. For generations\, Catholics in the United
  States went to confession regularly and in large numbers. It was something
  they did which their Protestant and other American neighbors did not do\, 
 and so it became a distinctive denominational marker for them. They did not
  like to do it\, but they did it anyway in compliance with the Church's exp
 ectations. Then\, starting in the 1960s and 1970s\, the practice all but di
 sappeared. Even those who continued to identify as practicing Catholics sto
 pped going to confession\, and parishes everywhere drastically curtailed th
 e hours when priests were available for this purpose. The book explores the
  reasons for this dramatic change\, reasons that came from within the Churc
 h and from society at large. The book also examines the role of clergy sexu
 al abuse in the decline of confession and in discouraging any revival of th
 e practice.\n\nA panel discussion on James O'Toole's latest book with panel
 ists: M. Cathleen Kaveny\, James Keenan\, S.J.\, and Leslie Tentler\; moder
 ated by Mark Massa\, S.J.
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LOCATION:Devlin Hall\, 101
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SUMMARY:For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in Amer
 ica
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URL:https://events.bc.edu/event/for-i-have-sinned-the-rise-and-fall-of-cath
 olic-confession-in-america
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