Catholic priest "If people confess that voted for Obama?
Father Joseph Illo of St. Modesto Cal say the people who voted for Obama should go to confession because Obama's position on abortion.
Why celibate religious ideologues seem to know the mind of God?
Instead, why not urge his congregation to stop taking the pill. He has not noticed a sharp decline in Catholic fertility [...]
It is only confess my sins to God is not good enough? (Please reply only Catholics)?
Well, I am a Catholic of 14 years, and I have accpeted Christ as my Lord and Savior and I believe he died on the cross, rose on the third day and ascended to Heaven. I believe that everything in the Catholic Bible. I admit, I am not perfect, and it is NO ONE on [...]
Why Catholics Go to the priest to confess sins, or to ask Forgivness him to pray for them?
My understanding of the passage in the Bible that says that "the veil is rent from top to bottom" when Christ died on the cross was the curtain that divides the interior of the temple worship of the common open area between the people and "Zone of Santo Santo" availabkle only priests. This area, prohibited [...]
Catholics, You Confess all your sins?
You believe the confession is not a joke, everyone repeats their sins anyway!
Confess sins to a priest?
Was wondering why Catholics (and Eastern Orthodox Christians) confess their sins to a priest? God sent Jesus to forgive sins, but after his resurrection Jesus told the apostles, "" As the Father has sent me, so I send you. "And when he had said this, breathed on them and told them:" Receive the Holy Spirit. [...]
Why does everyone here seem to believe that Catholics and we simply confess sins are forgiven?
Some believe that even the sins such as murder, rape, fraud, theft, or require only the prayer of confession and forgiveness, this is NOT the truth that they are also forced to confess to the authorities and to deal with the punishment due or ammends depending on the offense.
This is a requirement for acquittal. [...]
Catholics, how can I Confess This?
Telling lies and the reception of communion with a mortal sin without going to confession before going to communion … How is the word
How do I confess my sins to a priest?
I am a Catholic, and I would go to confession, but what I do and say to the priest? Am I supposed to kneel down and talk with him through the screen? Can I sit in front of him face to face? Catholics who know please, I am not seeking the opinion of anyone, thank [...]
If I Confess Murder, Rape, Child Pornography, Can a priest tell anyone, including the police?
Basically, what I'm asking is, if anything HUGE confess in the eyes of the law, a Catholic priest in the confession, they are allowed to tell anyone, including the police? Or do I say to the police as a condition of my pennance?
Like if you tell a psychiatrist that he killed this person here, [...]
Protestants: Do you know why Catholics confess to a priest?
A major criticism made by Protestants against the Catholic Church, questioned our practice of sacramental confession. "Why tell your sins to a priest when you can go directly to God?" wonder. Our response? Because this sacrament is one of the greatest blessings are Catholics. A sacrament - that no other church - that gives us [...]
