All this jargoning on absolution etc.   Whatever happened to the Gospel version of Truth sets you free?
How many priest's ordered to plead not guilty to whatever crime committed, later convicted, leaving a judge to relieve him of the yoke around his neck?
 Father Charles  McCann [now deceased ], a Melbourne archdiocesan priest  walked around with a summons in his pocket for weeks already admitting to police what he had done only later, charges withdrawn by pressure by the girls family and the church so there was no conviction, but at least he owned up.