"You asked me what compels me to speak up? A peculiar thing: my conscience." Victor Hugo The Catholic Church\'s desire to control its faithful received a significant boost when, sometime during the Dark Ages, it started to experiment with the concept of confession.
The Catholics were ordered to confess their sins to their priests and in return they would receive forgiveness and absolution for their misdeeds..
By the beginning of the next millennium it was fully in place. "You asked me what compels me to speak up? A peculiar thing: my conscience." Victor Hugo The Catholic Church\'s desire to control its faithful received a significant boost when, sometime during the Dark Ages, it started to experiment with the concept of confession
