Aside from the media-chosen wording "confesses," we need to know whether the Pope thinks what he did was wrong or not. If wrong, why does he still carry this item with him? If not wrong, why not?
Aside from the media-chosen wording "confesses," we need to know whether the Pope thinks what he did was wrong or not.Of course he thought is was wrong, he stated so himself:
And immediately there came to mind the thief we all have inside ourselves and while I arranged the flowers I took the cross and with just a bit of force I removed it," he said, showing with his hands how he pulled the cross off the rosary.