Confessions And Confessionals

[Jahulaye]

What is the mentality behind this? I’m not well versed regarding this but it’s my knowledge that you go to one and he prays to god for your forgiveness? Why does god need a middleman? Surely god should listen to all of his subjects?

The only way I see this as a good idea is that it gives the guilty a way of getting something off their chests do is therapeutic but what happens if there is no confessional nearby or at all?

On a side note is it really between just you and him? Even if you confessed to a murder, rape, paedophilia which involved the priests family? Are they under an oath not to tell another living soul? What is the punishment if they do and if they don’t statistically are they more likely to suffer depression and are suicide rates higher for them dragging around all the baggage?

Maybe they just laugh and tell jokes about confessions they’ve heard at their yearly priests party?

[keyplus90]

Naomi, I told you so many times that you may know a few Muslims but you surely know nothing about Islam more than what you have read from a handful websites.

[albaqwerty]

Am not sure that the Priest prays for forgiveness (have no idea)
thought the priest would say to the penetant, say 3 hail marys etc.
Then again, maybe the priest will then pray to their god about how may doodohs they've heard?

[ummmm]

I would guess that Naomi has read more than a few web pages.

Confession - now that's a way to turn a kid into a liar :-) I used to go but I had nothing to confess so I made my sins up.

[vulcan42]

keyplus, and as we have asked you so many times, explain it.

[Peter Pedant]

// Auricular confession is also practised in the C of E.//
yup in the real life murder where the step sister butchers her brother - trials of mr whidger I think - an anglican tools up and says this is the confidentiality of the confessional to howls of dismay of just about everyone else

and the Archbishopof C feels the need to write to the Times and remind punters the C of E recognises 7 sacraments of which confession is one

[douglas9401]

A bit of a hangover from the era of the divine right of kings?

We've hopefully moved on and, like Willie Windsor and his half brother will leave such dated trappings behind and co-mingle with fruity commoners, eventually allowing for self-determination with no threat of eternal suffering and other ghost stories.

[keyplus90]

Vulcan - and as you have asked me to explain so many times, what?

[naomi24]

Keyplus at 20:00 Sat, :o)

[jourdain2]

P.P. I think you mean 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher' a very interesting book and foundation of modern detective novels.

[Theland]

Ignorance of the R.C. history is widespread. They killed at least 50,000,000 people and the confession is just a part of their devilment.