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Confession automated?

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When I first heard about the Confessional phone line on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me's "Bluff the Listener" game [1], I thought that it had to be true.

"Bluff the Listener" is a segment on the NPR news quiz where each panel tells a ridiculous story, only one of which is true. This week both the contestant and I got it right: There is indeed a French phone line for automated Confessions.

Called "Le Fil du Seigneur [2]" or "The Line of the Lord," the 46-cents-per-minute service has not gotten rave reviews from France's bishops, FOX News reports [3]. No big surprise there.

Wait, Wait makes fun of it, but I'm not as surprised about this service as they are. After all, I wrote about DailyConfession.com a few years ago in U.S. Catholic. It seems the website is now down, but the creator had enough material to write a book [3] from it.

For another silly look at automated Confession, check out this video:

Source URL: http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2010/03/confession-automated

Links:
[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=124385826&m=124385813
[2] http://lefilduseigneur.com/
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Clean-Best-Worst-DailyConfession-com/dp/0740741772