Or would that be a weird question to ask? Since i assume we all do human mistakes.
Which is what James 5:16 is talking about. To pray for each other
Yes, Catholic priests, bishops, and even the Pope must confess their sins to another priest to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation just like any other Catholic. A priest cannot absolve himself of his own sins. They often have a regular confessor and are encouraged to do so with regularity.
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Peace to all,
So true, re-Sanctifcation is from the spirit for the created souls through the good works of the flesh from being able to do Penance becoming forgiven from Sacrifice through the Words of Absolution in Confession becoming again for all in One God in being a Family.
Logically the New Living Sacrifice requires atonement through absolution from the Words replacing the sacrifical penetential loss from animal loss replaced with the Words of absolution providing Penance through the Words re-Sanctifying the Soul from the good works of the flesh becoming forgiven to be able to become glorified becoming again transfigured from death through resurrection becoming again in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being.
Peace always,
Stephen Andrew
In āThe Scarlet and the Blackā (I wonāt give details of the film away and so will keep very general), a priest does verbalise that heās given his own confession to God. He actually turns down the offer of a confession, before he states this. Presumably, however, these were venial sins as otherwise he may have accepted confession from the other priest. Unless, he had a particular mystical aspect to his faith where he knew from God that it would be okay to just offer directly all of his sins.
This is not a weird question at all. I will, however, volley this question over to @CanadianPriest : )
The answer is, yes, priests go to other priests and confess their sins.
One statement that has made me appreciate this more deeply is from Fr. Robert Dodaro, who has said that this is a way of priests washing one anotherās feet, as Jesus commanded in the upper room. Priests walk through this world like everyone else and need their āfeetā to be cleansed. (I believe Fr. Dodaro was quoting St. Augustine, but I am not 100% on that.)
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Peace to all,
Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo at the beach in France was explaining the Trinity to a child playing in the sand. He asked the little child what he was doing, and the child said he was using a pink seashell to take all of the water from the ocean and put it in the hole in the sand. And the great St. Augustine turned to the child and then held his arms out and said, looking at the ocean you cannot take all of the water out of the ocean with a seashell and put it in a hole in the sand. And then the child said then you can never understand the trinity and Saint Augustus turned around, and the child Mystic had just disappeared.
Sometimes I wonder where today that child Mystic went. Heās probably out there, explaining Trinity logic to the world.
Peace always,
Stephen Andrew
Yes indeed!,Pope John Paul l l used to go for weekly confessions , priest do go for the sacrament of confession,but am not sure of the length of time they take.
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