confession

noun

• 1a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a crime:he signed a confession to the murders
• an admission or acknowledgment that one has done something that one is ashamed or embarrassed about:by his own confession, he had strayed perilously close to alcoholism
• a formal admission of one’s sins with repentance and desire of absolution, especially privately to a priest as a religious duty:she still had not been to confessionSee also sacrament of reconciliation.
• (confessions) often humorous intimate revelations about a person’s private life or occupation, especially as presented in a sensationalized form in a book, newspaper, or movie:confessions of a driving instructor

• 2 (also confession of faith) a statement setting out essential religious doctrine.
• (also Confession) the religious body or church sharing a confession of faith.
• a statement of one’s principles:his words are a political confession of faith