"Private confession" refers to the act of telling someone, usually in private, about something you did wrong or feel guilty about.
Sentences with «private confession»
The answer is very simple and yet touches the ultimate depth of our life: by true private confession and by divine forgiveness of all my sins. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
To make it acceptable, however, he replaced the requirement of open personal disclosure with private confession to a priest. (religion-online.org)
Catholics, as we have seen, have traditionally been encouraged to make private confession to a priest, who offers them absolution. (religion-online.org)