"How many are the souls, in distress, anxiety or loneliness, whose one need is to find a being to whom they can pour out their feelings unheard by the world? Tell them out they must; they cannot tell them out to those whom they see every hour. They...wish to tell them to one who is strong enough to bear them, yet not too strong to despise them; they wish to tell them to one who can at once advise and can sympathize with them; they wish to relieve themselves of a load, to gain solace...If there is a heavenly idea in the Catholic Church, surely, next after the Blessed Sacrament, Confession is such." -Blessed John Henry Newman, Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England
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