‘Señor Guevara, do you think God pardons a crime, a murder, for example, solely because one tells it to a priest, who is, in the end, a man, and who has the duty to keep it to himself, and who is afraid of burning in hell, which is an act of attrition, who is a coward, and certainly without shame? I have another conception of God,’ he would say, ‘to me one does not correct one wrong by committing another, nor is one pardoned by useless weeping, or by giving alms to the church.’