The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America
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For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America by JAMES M. O’TOOLE
Much of the book focuses on experience of Confession for American Catholics through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, attentive to the ways in which it structured American Catholic culture beyond the confessional and informed a common understanding of sin and salvation.
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