Have you forgotten to go to confession lately?

[Cheese]

Well the Roman Catholic Church has noticed!


By lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding the tribunal's work, the Vatican hopes to emphasize the fundamental role the sacrament plays in saving souls...

"Today it seems as though the sense of sin has been forgotten,...

Confessions of even the most heinous of crimes and sins — such as genocide or mass murder — are handled at the local level by priests and their bishops and are not heard by the tribunal.

These include defiling the Eucharist, which Catholics believe is the body and blood of Christ. Stafford said this offense is occurring with more and more frequency, not just in satanic rites but by ordinary faithful who receive Communion and then remove the host from their mouths and spit it out or otherwise desecrate it.

Others include a priest breaking the seal of the confessional by revealing the nature of the sin and the person who sought penance, or a priest who has sex with someone and then offered forgiveness for the act.
These sins bring automatic excommunication from the church. Once absolution is granted, the excommunication is lifted, Stafford said.

A fourth type of case that comes to the tribunal involves a man who directly caused an abortion — such as by paying for it — who then seeks to become a priest or deacon, Stafford said.


So? who has gone to confession lately? I notice another thread that would make a priest blush...

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Cheese

I notice another thread that would make a priest blush...

It wouldn't make a Catholic priest blush...

[ben voyonsdonc]

I've been to the confessional thread a bunch of times...that's gotta count for something.

Who needs confessional when I can confess all my sins on CP?

[onetwo_threefour]

Yeah, I admit I've forgotten.... For about thirty years now.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Last time I went to confession, it was like 2000 or something. It was in the Vatican itself so really, that has to be worth more than your average confession.

Man, we are all going to burn.

[alltherage]

The problem I have with confession is that I know that there are some sins I will keep doing. Like having pre-marital sex, smoking pot, and that kind of thing. I don't think one or two sins like that that seemlingly don't hurt anyone are so bad... but I wonder if they all pile up, or if they would all be lumped in as one sin per category... like, is smoking pot 3 times 3 sins? Or is it 1 sin?

[Ice]

I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school until 8th grade. I think it was around 4th grade when we decided we could lie about our last confession so the priest wouldn't bust us. We were taught to go to confession every week, even as a kid I didn't understand why we were the only religion requiring a middle man to confess to God, but that's another tangent...so some of us didn't go to confession every week, in fact, sometimes we only went that once a quarter during school. So we worked it like this:

"Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been one week since my last confession. These are my sins: I lied, etc, etc."

Two Hail Marys and an Act of Contrition and it was time for recess.

[Bagor]

2 decades of the rosary was the going rate for masturbating about 20 years ago for anyone that's interested.

[mykalberta]

Never been to confession. No need. The Church is not in any way officially associated with what it sells.

Also, IMO if you read the book at all, confession is a complete and utter farce.

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by Bagor

2 decades of the rosary was the going rate for masturbating about 20 years ago for anyone that's interested.

I think cancer is punishment enough for that.

[awildermode]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

Who needs confessional when I can confess all my sins on CP?

yep!

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=65564

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by Bagor

2 decades of the rosary was the going rate for masturbating about 20 years ago for anyone that's interested.

Ya, but bang a choir boy and you get to go straight to heaven. I guess that probably only works for RC priests though.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by alltherage

The problem I have with confession is that I know that there are some sins I will keep doing. Like having pre-marital sex, smoking pot, and that kind of thing. I don't think one or two sins like that that seemlingly don't hurt anyone are so bad... but I wonder if they all pile up, or if they would all be lumped in as one sin per category... like, is smoking pot 3 times 3 sins? Or is it 1 sin?

Sounds like your kind of worried.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by alltherage

The problem I have with confession is that I know that there are some sins I will keep doing. Like having pre-marital sex, smoking pot, and that kind of thing. I don't think one or two sins like that that seemlingly don't hurt anyone are so bad... but I wonder if they all pile up, or if they would all be lumped in as one sin per category... like, is smoking pot 3 times 3 sins? Or is it 1 sin?

I wouldn't sweat about the pot. I haven't read the bible, but I've never heard about anything like "Thou shalt not torch a doob" being in it.

As for the pre-marital sex, I'd question an institution that makes a little nookie between consenting adults a sin, but doesn't put a prohibition on choir boys. They pretty much lose their moral authority on that one as far as I'm concerned.

[Russic]

I'd probably go to church if all the confessions to tacked to a giant cork board for all to see. Alas, they are not so I'll just stick to worshiping here.