{"id":85615,"date":"2026-08-19T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85615"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:10:13","slug":"is-30-minutes-too-long-for-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/is-30-minutes-too-long-for-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Is 30 Minutes Too Long for Confession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>NCR<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>A woman on X had a message for Catholics who, in her estimation, were spending a little too much time in the confessional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease stop taking over 30 minutes in the confession booth,\u201d she wrote in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KyrieeEleison_\/status\/2087557627794366551\">Aug. 12 post<\/a>. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a place for you to rant about your life, this is a confessions booth.\u201d\u00a0Her solution was straightforward: Catholics should prepare and meditate on their sins beforehand \u201cso it\u2019s quick and efficient.\u201d If they needed more time, she suggested, they should \u201cbook a spiritual consultation.\u201d\u00a0The post might have disappeared into the usual internet churn. Instead, a Dominican priest jumped into the replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NCR: A woman on X had a message for Catholics who, in her estimation, were spending a little too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85616,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85615\/revisions\/85616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}