Peter, you are obviously entitled to your opinion on the forgiveness of sins, but the relevance to the theme of the thread is remote.

Beeliner, I argued way up the thread that the sacrament of confession, and the power it invests in priests, has been a major factor in enabling the abuse to continue. Is that of no relevance in this thread?
And do not even you begin to question the whole confession mularky now it is plain that a finite proportion of your forgivers of sins have been going from parish to parish sexually assaulting children?