St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, pastured by Stephen DiGiovanni, brought back the idea of confession booths. As he entered the church, confessions were told in "reconciliation rooms". The rooms were face to face confrontations between a member of a church and a priest. People thought that it was extremely awkward and embarrassing and many either rarely did them or refused to do them in general. With these confession booths, around 450 people would confess their sins to priests using this new way to confess sins a week. Sin confessing is available in five different languages. Such as English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and French. St. John's church is also trying to promote other churches to do the same so that people can more openly confess their wrongs they have committed. Some ways in which they are spreading the word is throughout papers, billboards and radio commercials. But they still question if the multimedia effort can change behavior on a grand scale.
El Fin
15 years ago
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