First-time viewer here, so what I'm about to ask may have been covered already.
Not long ago, the public discourse in Australia was dominated by events around the revelations of systematic abuse of children by clergy. I was curious about the process of Confession in Catholic rites. Suppose the guilt of a misdeed (or, even, a crime) that the perpetrator brings to Confession is absolved. Does the rite have the effect of wiping the deed from memory?
First-time viewer here, so what I'm about to ask may have been covered already.
Not long ago, the public discourse in Australia was dominated by events around the revelations of systematic abuse of children by clergy. I was curious about the process of Confession in Catholic rites. Suppose the guilt of a misdeed (or, even, a crime) that the perpetrator brings to Confession is absolved. Does the rite have the effect of wiping the deed from memory?