I know next to nothing about Canon Law, but I have the impression that it would frown on carrying a voice recorder into the Confessional. I wish I had, though, when my pastor recently bid me adieu with an uplifting litany of things that absolution had just done for me, among them (I have to quote from memory) “your sight is now clear.”
Unbeknown to him, I’d just had cataract surgery – as, coincidentally, have a couple of TCT writers and readers in recent months. In my case, the cloudiness was brought on by treatment two years ago for a partly detached retina, which untreated can instantly produce blindness. So I was both seeing much better and “seeing” much better.
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