I’m guessing you’ve worked out that I’m Catholic. I don’t see sex as a sin, and certainly not masturbation. I don’t go to mass every week, but when I do go, I always go to confession first. Usually, the priest just listens, gives a bit of advice, and we move on. But this tim...
As I knelt there, I had confessed what I thought were my sins to date, and finished up with the usual formula “for these, and any sins in my past I have now forgotten, I am truly sorry”. There was silence, then the priest asked if I was sure that I had confessed everything. They don’t usually go fishi...
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