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For most Catholics in late medieval England, confession was an annual affair undertaken during Lent. Lines were long, and priests and penitents alike were impatient to get it over with. “Pastoral realism therefore demanded that the confession be kept within manageable dimensions,” wrote the Irish historian Eamon Duffy in 1992.
Nic Rowan is managing editor at The Lamp and a fellow in the Robert Novak Journalism Program through The Fund for American Studies.
