https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/feds-call-abuse-reporting-law-anti-catholic-as-church-vows-excommunication/ar-AA1Eq9wU This is one domain even the more liberal Catholics are obliged to fight back against. Forty-five years ago Foucault argued that that Catholic sacrament of confession had been secularized into a general modality of power/knowledge: the modern subject "emerges" in subjection to surveillance and confession -- to the point of willingly confessing. What a profound twist: the sinner is now the one who hears the confession, but fails to confess his hearing! Total exposure = suffocation of the male, of the human |