Hmm …

… Sins of omission – should Catholic confession always be confidential? | World news | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Odd that no mention is made of conditional absolution. There was a case where such figured when I was in high school. A four-year-old girl was raped and murdered. The person who did it was a high school student. He confessed to one of the priests at his school, who told him he could only give him absolution on condition that he turn himself in, since the sin he had committed was also a crime. The kid asked the priest if he would call the police for him, and the priest did exactly that. The business in this article about someone wanting absolution for something like adultery who has no intention of stopping the adultery sounds very strange to me, since not continuing to commit the sin is what repentance is all about.