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Bishop Schneider: It depends on which sin. The Church requires, according to the Council of Trent, that mortal sins must be confessed by number, at least when you can remember them. As long as you can remember, you have to say the number of the sins. When not exactly, then you can give more or less, according to your memory, of how often it happened when you do not know the exact number.
You also have to mention the circumstances of the mortal sin. So there is a difference. The circumstances must also be mentioned, though not necessarily in a general way. It is not necessary to expose every detail, but the number, the circumstances, and the species, which kind of mortal sin it was.
Christopher Wendt: Okay, but not venial sin.
Bishop Schneider: No, only for mortal sins.
Christopher Wendt: It would probably be hard to do anyway because we commit hundreds of venial sins all the time. It would be hard to count all that.
Bishop Schneider: I mean, when you make a good and exact examination of conscience and pray to your guardian angel, you will then tell the priest even your venial sins in order to be more interiorly purified.