Are you sorry? You are? OK, your slate's clean. Go and commit sin with a clear conscience!

Our priest was quite cool about absoloution when I was a kid. He hardly ever held confession. He'd just give general absolution every Holy Day, or every few months, or something like that. This was basically a drive-thru confession where the whole congregation woul sit and think about their sins, and then Father Right-On would say words to the effect of '..and if you're relly sorry, then He forgives you.'