1.   And many parishes encourage parents to get back into the booth, symbolically speaking, when their children are preparing for their first confession.

2.   A few days ago, Manning heard his first confessions as a priest.

3.   A white dress for her first confession.

4.   According to Coleman, the first confession occurred as he stood night watch over Skakel.

5.   Later that day, he went to his first confession since childhood.

6.   Leetonia, on the other hand, was the tiny town with the big cathedral where we all made our first confessions and communions.

7.   It was not his first confession, as things turned out.

8.   It was the first such confession in court by a key member of the controversial sect.