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I agree with you about this.  But I didn’t always agree with you. I reclaimed the Sacrament of Penance as part of my spiritual life about twenty year ago, but I understand how and why the Sacrament has suffered so much under the weight of the magisterium’s lack of credibility with regard to human sexuality. Sure: many couples (the vast majority) rejected the teaching of Humanae Vitae; but for many of them, there was a sort of cognitive dissonance: if the church was so utterly out of touch with the reality of their experience of human sexuality and marriage, so central to their experience as Christians and as human beings, what did it have to contribute to the rest of their spiritual journey?