Father Anthony Mastroeni discusses the confessional and the priesthood as signalling the failure of the Post-Conciliar paradigm. Without confession, the sense of sin is lost. It becomes a mere mental sickness or moral misunderstanding. Without a sense of sin, the sense of God is lost. The contemporary abandonment of confession is ending in the abandonment of God. Father Anthony Mastroeni of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, speaks on the Sacrament of Confession. Taken from: Catholics of Tradition: Speaking Plainly in the New Pontificate – New Jersey Conference – March 2006