The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America

Rose Lyddon
03 April 2025, The Tablet

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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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