blog #8

Freedman, Samuel. "In One Church, Confessions Makes a Comeback". NewYork Times. 20 February 2009. 24 February 2009. .

St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church pastured by Stephen DiGiovanni, brought back the idea of confession booths. When he entered the church, confessions were told in reconciliation rooms. These rooms were face to face confrontations between a member of the church and a priest. Man people thought that this was awkward and embarrassing and many either rarely did them or refused to do them in general. With the reintroduction of confession booths, about 450 people a week confess their sins to priests using this new way to confess sins. Sin confessing is available in five different languages. These languages are 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 on highway billboards, radio commercials and handouts. They just question if the multimedia effort can change behavior on a grand scale.