Catholic Christians:Answer this plz?

Question

Who forgives the father confessor who forgives priests??

Answer 1

i am catholic and i really have no idea- maybe the arch bishop or the pope or something like that. sry i can't be of much help!

Answer 2

Other priests would be my best guess. A priest once told me they would practice confessing to each other in the seminary. There is even a joke where two priests go out partying one night and decide to confess to each other the next day and forgive each other. The first priest confesses and the second priest gives him an easy penance and forgives him. Then the second priest confesses and the first priest gives him a harsh penance. The first priest asks him why? and the second priest says because he takes his job seriously.

Answer 3

Not quite clear what your question is. Sins are forgiven by God. We receive God's forgiveness through the sacrament of confession. Priests who need to go to confession confess to other priests. Even the pope goes to confession with a priest.

Answer 4

Good question.....at the end of the day who is the only person to forgive sins? God. The people on earth just say that your sins are forgiven because they have been to priest school, however they are just as mortal as we are! So really if you need your sins forgiving, then go straight for the top guy. If you really think it will work.......?

Answer 5

The Catholic Church believes that "Only God forgives sin."

When a penitent person asks God for forgiveness, his (or her) sins are immediately forgiven.

Catholics also believe that when someone sins they not only hurt their relationship with God, they also injure the entire church, the body of Christ.

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation with a priest ordained in the name Jesus Christ not only reconciles the sinner to God but with the entire church, including you and me.

Any priest or bishop may go to any other priest or bishop for the sacrament of Reconciliation.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

All the ordained, deacons, priests, bishops, cardinals, and even the Pope, admit to God they are sinners and confess it. So do all the not-ordained. This is nothing new. God commanded the Jews to do it so confession of sins to the priest to the first Jewish-Christians was a normal thing.

Any ordained priest can administer this sacrament to any Catholic, be they a layman, bishop, or Pope.
http://www.catholic.com/library/sacraments.asp

Answer 7

Father Confessor? Must be the Pope I guess.

Nightingale, if you mess around with this Mafia with old men at their head you're going to be forlorn.

Listen to John Keats who perished 'ere he was a third of the Pope's age:

"Forlorn ...
Fled is that music, do I wake or sleep?"

That, if I remember right is the last stanza of "Ode to a Nightingale"

Answer 8

a priest. it does not matter that they are not of equal position, if you're a priest, then you can forgive anyones sins...even the popes (i think) but good question...I may be wrong, btu that is what I was taught...maybe its changed, since I am being taught out of the original chatechism,
:o)

Answer 9

I would imagine that priests confess sins to other priests. They are human just like us.

Answer 10

Epriest and bishop has his own confessor. The pope has his own confessor, one of the cardinals. But only God can forgive. This doesn't mean God can't choose how the forgiveness is administered, though.

John 20: 21-23 "As the Father has sent me so I send you. When He said this He breathed on them; and He said to them: Receive the Holy Ghost; Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."

The power to forgive sin was therefore given to the Apostles and they handed it down to their successors. Remember, the command of Christ was to preach to the whole world and its impossible for the apostle to do this since they were mortals. To say that it was only the apostles who had the power is to say it was only the first christians who were true christians. All the conditions of salvation are the same for us as for the first christians otherwise we can't claim to be christians ourselves. We share the same privileges and responsibilities as them. In fact, Christian history points the fact that even the second, third, and so on generation of christians practise confession.

Didache
"Confess your sins in church, and do not go up to your prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life" (4:14 [as early as A.D. 70]).

Tertullian
"[Regarding confession, some] flee from this work as being an exposure of themselves, or they put it off from day to day. I presume they are more mindful of modesty than of salvation, like those who contract a disease in the more shameful parts of the body and shun making themselves known to the physicians; and thus they perish along with their own bashfulness" (Repentance 10:1 [A.D. 203]).

Cyprian of Carthage
"Of how much greater faith and salutary fear are they who ... confess their sins to the priests of God in a straightforward manner and in sorrow, making an open declaration of conscience. . . . I beseech you, brethren, let everyone who has sinned confess his sin while he is still in this world, while his confession is still admissible, while the satisfaction and remission made through the priests are still pleasing before the Lord" (The Lapsed 28 [A.D. 251]).

Basil
"It is necessary to confess our sins to those to whom the dispensation of God's mysteries is entrusted. Those doing penance of old are found to have done it before the saints. It is written in the Gospel that they confessed their sins to John the Baptist [Matt. 3:6], but in Acts [19:18] they confessed to the apostles." (Rules Briefly Treated 288 [A.D. 370]).

John Chrysostom
"Priests have received a power which God has given neither to angels nor to archangels. It was said to them: 'Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose, shall be loosed.' Temporal rulers have indeed the power of binding; but they can only bind the body. Priests, in contrast, can bind with a bond which pertains to the soul itself and transcends the very heavens. Did [God] not give them all the powers of heaven? 'Whose sins you shall forgive,' he says, 'they are forgiven them; whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.' What greater power is there than this? The Father has given all judgment to the Son. And now I see the Son placing all this power in the hands of men [Matt. 10:40; Luke 10:16; John 20:20-23; 2 Cor. 5:18-20]. They are raised to this dignity as if they were already gathered up to heaven." (On the Priesthood 3:5 [A.D. 386]).

Ambrose
"For those to whom [the right of binding and loosing] has been given, it is plain that either both are allowed, or it is clear that neither is allowed. Both are allowed to the Church, neither is allowed to heresy. For this right has been granted to priests only" (On Penance 1:1 [A.D. 387]).