"I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber,"

I am so gratified that, as I check confessional after confessional, all the torture chambers are gone. Vanished. I think getting rid of those menacing things is the greatest achievement by far of the current papacy.

But I have to wonder about Germany: If adulterers there want a priest to green-light their union for sacramental purposes, do they have to sign up for the church tax as a condition? What about the rest of Europe?