confession vs statement

confession

noun
  • A formal document providing such an admission. 

  • A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith. 

  • The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad). 

  • The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation. 

  • Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith. 

statement

noun
  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • A declaration or remark. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

How often have the words confession and statement occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )