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Summary:

"The history of US Catholicism is the history of confession. For I Have Sinned charts the rise of confession as the defining ritual of American Catholic piety and identity-and its fall, as clergy sex-abuse scandals and the cultural shifts of the 1970s decimated interest in a practice that, today, is alien even to most faithful believers."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Habit
• Sin
• Confessing
• Experience
• Secrecy
• Psychology
• Collapse
• Revelations
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

O'Toole, James M., 1950- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

For I have sinned: the rise and fall of Catholic confession in America [by O'Toole, J.M.]

Subjects:

Catholic Church — United States — History

Confession — Catholic Church — History

Catholics — Religious life — United States — History

Child sexual abuse by clergy — United States — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

BX2263.U6 O86 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780674299573 (electronic bk.)
0674299574 (electronic bk.)
9780674294523 [Invalid]
0674294521 [Invalid]

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31685413 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21262606