I know the New York Archdiocese is trying to encourage people to go to confession. Probably not like this.A 30 Rock episode in which Alec Baldwin's character, thoroughly lapsed Catholic Jack, tries to go to confession. There's a nice Princeton--Harvard rivalry there. Except, of course, that Catholic priests don't normally get their seminary training at HDS. He needs a good, tough Franciscan.The confession clip is about 11:23 on the timer.

Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.

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