text: I can appreciate your story, however, a more progressive view would allow you to confess your sins daily to Almighty God Himself.  You do this when you recite the Lord's Prayer, do you not? And we may confess to our Christian brethren when the opportunity presents. Occasionally I get around to telling a priest but it is certainly nothing I obsess about.  Due to its abuse-prone history and nature, I do not view institutional Reconciliation as a necessary and holy sacrament.