so there are these crime debuffs, and there are these (rather useless) churches...
made me wondering, why not having both combined:
so instead of running away from the crime scene and hiding for some time, our poor sinners would have to visit the next best church and pray for their very soul
one could either use the church in Boston (but easily be tracked down) or he could build an own church at his hideout
for the small purse there could be a shine, which could be built in any house (but one would have to pray longer than in a proper church)