Thank you for your comments, Jim. By the time I make it around to your blog these days (or anyone else’s, for that matter), there is always a wealth of posts and wonderful comments waiting on me. There is not much I can add to this post that has not alreayd been said. I hope all finds you well in your world these days.

Yes, thank you for your comments. I can certainly understand the desire to seek out a RC priest for confession and that seems a little different facet of confession than that afforded by an “accountability partner.” For one thing, accountability partners do not generally absolve anyone, no matter how gifted they may be at listening. But even the feel and flavor is different in my mind, though perhaps that has more to do with terminology than actual fact? Or maybe it has to do with what the difference in office can signify for us, in my mind, not unwrongly as some would suggest. For me, there is something about the clerical collar that is found wanting in its more mainstream counterparts. I think I have reached a place of seeing the good along with the bad, but I am still inclined to think that we lose much when we treat tradition lightly.