Abstract
One focus of the interpretive sociology of religion is the way religious institutions teach persons to organize their experience into relevant moral categories. Applying Goffman's frame analysis to pseudo confessions collected by Italian journalists posing as penitents, we discover three main frames used to decide whether actions are sins, and whether priests should give absolution. The frames are the Supernatural-Social, the Supernatural-Individual, and the Natural-Social. Orthodox confessors emphasize the Supernatural-Social frame, while pastoral confessors rely on the Supernatural-Individual Frame, and both would agree that the NaturalSocial Frame by itself is morally inadequate. Orthodox priests uphold the teaching of the Catholic Church and procreation; pastoral priests appoal to individual conscience and love.
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