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Under the stuff you can't make up, the Archdiocese of Washington is starting a media blitz to get Catholics back to confession. A story by Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post  notes the archdiocese has launched a major marketing blitz, advertising on buses, subway cars, a billboard, the radio and in 100,000 brochures in an effort to get people back to the confessional. Seems that what used to be long lines of people waiting to go to confession, and the priest hearing a relentless outpouring of sins by his parishioners for hours, has not been scaled back to 30- or 45-minute increments or by appointment. The ad slogan is, "The Light Is On For You."  (who wants a light on when you go confess your deep dark sins?) Ask any Catholic and they will tell you some, or many, confession horror stories in their life.  When I was a young adolescent, I went in and told Father Altar Boy Coordinator  about some impure thought I had that Sister Mary...
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