Francis Wants "Always to Forgive" in Non-Existing Novus Ordo Confession

Out of habit or to ease their guilt. What the old folks used to call “putting a bandaid on their consciences.“ They don’t understand it as a Sacrament, nor do they know how Sacraments actually function. So in their minds they’ve done all they really need to do just by going in to the Confessional Booth and verbalizing certain of their sins to a Priest. The whole concept of genuine “contrition” along with “purpose of amendment” is totally foreign to their thinking. Such a thing never occurs to them. And if it did, they would not regard it as necessary.

@SonoftheChurch - Bergoglio's past comments of TLM Catholics is uncharitable. TLM Catholics haven't done anything, but to be faithful to the teaching Magisterium of the Church. I guess a better word would be tolerant. Of course there are exceptions in the Novus Ordo, and I have gone to confession to N.O. priest who are very good Confessors. I’ve only met a few priests who have real discernment and are able to identify sinners who have a firm purpose of amendment and true contrition, and who are sincere in amending their lives.

@Arthur McGowan the nuns taught us back in the day that it's salutary to make devotional confessions where one confesses venial sins frequently, since Christians should be aware of their sinfulness and live a life of contrition (fruit of the 1st Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary). And this was good advice for us children because it hard to think of an instance where a child commits willful mortal sin. It was the modernist theologians of the post-Vatican II era that confused things by saying that if is difficult - even rare - to commit grave sin [the whole fundamental option notion]. The result = hardly anyone goes to confession & children even are encouraged to have their first Communion years before learning about how to make a good confession. So no, the sacrament isn't only for people who commit mortal sins, only that those people are REQUIRED to avail themselves of it if they want to receive the Eucharist.