{"id":11977,"date":"2019-01-07T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2019-01-07T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:57:50","slug":"confession-in-america-i-review-a-history-of-an-individualist-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2019\/01\/confession-in-america-i-review-a-history-of-an-individualist-country.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Confession in America&#8221;: I review a history of an individualist country"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>and her Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-\u00adLevitt romantic comedy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00GJ0GOVO?ref=sr_1_2_acs_kn_imdb_pa_dp&amp;qid=1546638820&amp;sr=8-2-acs&amp;autoplay=0&amp;pf_rd_p=b9fa5518-82ad-465c-b8e4-61d7178ea6fc&amp;pd_rd_r=90b5e75e-6aba-4281-8ed1-16d6146aa9c9&amp;pd_rd_i=B00GJ0GOVO&amp;pf_rd_r=0PC183ESRFF06RRHA71V&amp;pd_rd_wg=yDnli&amp;pd_rd_w=PaVTr&amp;pf_rd_p=b9fa5518-82ad-465c-b8e4-61d7178ea6fc&amp;pd_rd_w=PaVTr&amp;pf_rd_r=0PC183ESRFF06RRHA71V&amp;pd_rd_wg=yDnli&amp;pd_rd_r=90b5e75e-6aba-4281-8ed1-16d6146aa9c9firstthings20-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">Don Jon<\/a><\/em>, the porn-obsessed title character hits the confessional, reels off his \u00adusual list of sins against chastity, and then cheerfully heads to the gym to pray his Hail Marys while doing pull-ups. You won\u2019t find this moment in Patrick W. Carey\u2019s careful new study, <em>Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America<\/em>. Carey had to set sharp limits on his sources in order to keep the project manageable; he frames his arguments around aspirational texts, theological or hortatory, rather than real or fictional records of what people did and felt. <em>Don Jon<\/em> is much too sleazy for a history whose citations swarm with cardinals and professors. And yet this cinematic moment manages to capture several of the points Carey makes about the nature\u2014and the failures\u2014of confession among American Catholics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2019\/02\/confession-in-america\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and her Church: In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-\u00adLevitt romantic comedy Don Jon, the porn-obsessed title character hits the confessional, reels off his \u00adusual list of sins against chastity, and then cheerfully heads to the gym to pray his Hail Marys while doing pull-ups. You won\u2019t find this moment in Patrick W. 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