When a Christian learns how to evangelize for the first time and take the light of Christ into dark places, one of the first movements a convert is lead in is the act of confession. We must confess our sins before God, and continue to do so, as we explore the vastness of God's salvation through the Spirits conviction.

Confession has been a part of the Christian service since the early church, yet it does not often happen at a corporate level..
When it comes to public, corporate sin, the church often buckles down and tries to explain away events as the happening of a few bad apples in the Church, and we are most likely correct in that assumption. But often, when the Church is shown to be an accomplice in evil, whether knowingly or not, the Church favors public relations over confession.

It was admirable to see that the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina is trying to act as confessors of being accomplices to the purgings of leftists during the late 1970s and early 80s. Some leaders in the Roman Catholic Church assisted the Argentine dictatorship in carrying out a ''dirty war'' against political opponents, and now the church, led by Father Capitanio, has publicly admitted to the church aligning itself with the government for political advantage and for turning a blind eye to the priests within the church that were involved in the ''dirty war.''

Father Capitanio is adamant that the church is moving in the right direction by confessing, for it is good for the church as a whole to confess instead of forget about sin.

''There are some who think that this trial is an attack on the church, and I want to say that this is a service to the church,'' he said before a tribunal trying a priest who helped point out political opponents to the government for torture and execution. ''This is helping us search for the truth....We have much to be sorry for.''

Indeed, the Church does have much to be sorry for, yet that should never keep us from sharing just how sorry we are, and setting ourselves up as examples of not only moral excellence but confession and repentance.