Just curious
2007-01-11 03:33:02 · 10 answers · asked by Zifikos 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Kev M i guess a priest is a man too..
2007-01-11 03:38:50 · update #1
I haven't done it since I was very young....can't remember the last time I went, but I'd be surprised if I went after the age of 14 or so.
Mostly it was just uncomfortable confessing at all. Whether it was a man or woman didn't matter.
2007-01-11 03:40:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. If feels good to confess. Have you ever done something you regret and finally told someone? You feel better. Confession is like that. We tell the priest our sins and we feel so much better afterwards.
2007-01-11 03:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not confessing to a man, I'm confessing to a priest. A man would be anything with a penis that walks on two legs. That isn't saying much.
2007-01-11 03:37:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am glad I converted to Catholicism.
I am always seeking knowledge.
I found this info online as 'additional readings" :
Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."
"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.
Source(s):
Additional Reading
Against the Reformers
St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online
2007-01-11 06:34:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don"t confess to a man.We confess to God. When a priest gives the absolution he is Christ himself forgiving my sins. That makes me feel good, not weird! Maybe you should go and confess your sins so that you will experience the beauty of knowing your sins have been erased!
2007-01-11 03:51:11 · answer #5 · answered by inchristwetrust2001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are not confessing to a man, they are confessing to God! The priest is there to counsel!
2007-01-11 03:56:27 · answer #6 · answered by June smiles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
james 5 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. NKJV
Everyone should confess to another man/woman. It just doesn't have to be a priest like catholics think. Anyone trustworthy is fine. It is necessary for healing. Its necessary to build relationships with eachother and support with eachother.
2007-01-11 03:38:13 · answer #7 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i am not catholic but may be you should try god out, because
man fall short of the glory as we do then your mind will be at
ease .pray by your self and talk to your heavenly father god
and confess to him and ask in the name of Jesus Christ
that priest did not die so you can have life more abundantly
Jesus did he,s now a spirit you are confessing to the wrong
person, to a flesh who can not take your hurt and worry
away like Jesus, try JESUS, God bless U.
2007-01-11 03:45:01 · answer #8 · answered by Tella 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
confess to God not man or did we forget about the curtain into the holy of holys tearing when Christ died. where does it say in the bible to confess your sins to man? why would we need Jesus if we could do that?
everyone should feel weird
2007-01-11 03:38:28 · answer #9 · answered by thespillgood 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Especially when you don't know where his hands are..ewwww.
2007-01-11 03:36:50 · answer #10 · answered by INDRAG? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋