To confess your sins, press two

Published: 7:16PM GMT 01 March 2010

Callers attend to a balmy masculine voice welcoming them to "The Line of the Lord" at a cost of 31 pence a minute.

"For recommendation on confessing, press one. To confess, press two. To attend to a little confessions, press three," it says.

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"In box of critical or mortal sins that is, sins that have cut you off from Christ the Lord, it is essential to disclose in a priest,"

The site was set up this month at the commencement of Lent by a organisation of Catholics operative for AABAS, a small Paris association that provides write messaging services.

But the Conference of French Bishops, has warned in a matter that the line had "no capitulation from the Catholic Church in France."

It does not suggest pardon for sins, that usually a clergyman can provide, pronounced the creator, Camille, who asked for her second name not be cited since she had perceived threats about the service.

"The thought is to declare sins that are not collateral sins, but teenager sins, without delay to God," she said, adding that the line perceived about 300 calls in the initial week.