confession -- (an admission of misdeeds or faults)
confession -- (a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party)
confession -- ((Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution)
confession -- (a public declaration of your faith)
confession -- (the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century))