Do Catholic Priests confess to other Catholic Priests?

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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

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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

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In ‘The Scarlet and the Black’ (I won’t give details of the film away and so will keep very general), a priest does verbalise that he’s 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.

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Peace to all,

The logic of “Why are you hiding” becomes clear from The Power of The Holy Spirit Family One God in being.

So true, an amazing movie and I will watch it again. I read over the notes from the movie. And it is a Catholic movie involving the Sacraments and Confession.

The two death to life Sacraments are Baptism and Penance, to restore the friendship from Sacrifice re-Sanctifying the Soul through the flesh from the Holy Spirit Confirmed in the Will of the Father becoming in Communion with Him, the Family again through the Host to be able to become again transfigured in One God in being.

From the Transfiguration Powers of the Holy Family all Creation becomes united as One God in being from Created Failed becoming Transformed through the flesh Immortalized brothers and sisters becoming from Sacrifice through Penance becoming forgiven becoming glorified from spirit incorruption becoming Sons and Daughters of God becoming again Transfigured for all Creation in One Family.

From the Faith of Abraham, The Pentecost of the Gentiles, for all was in Corinth and the Jewish Pentecost was in the Upper Room. Whomever missed The Pentecosts are the Jews and Non-Catholics of today. But we are not judging here, anywhere.

Faith saves and to me but wow logic really brings home the truth from the feature benefits logically derived inthe Sacraments for all becoming more faithful through logic. Through faith we believe and hope. From logic we can now know why we are faithful in the feature benefits from the Sacraments, literally.

Take, for example, the logic of the Parable of the Logic in the Living Sacrifice, a short story from the 21st Century by Stephen Andrew.

Rationale from the Sacrifice becomes from the first and failed attempt at salvation through a man made solution that did not allow proper “Hiding.”

God told Adam and Eve and God told Abraham and Mary told the servants, “Listen to Him.”

God chooses the new living sacrifice through his daughter for his son becoming through the Christ becoming The new living sacrifice through both the Eternal Priestly Authority through the Immaculate Conception, the priest, and the sacrifice.

Transfiguration is The Holy Spirit Family’s combined powers from creation through transformation for glorification becoming again re"imaged in One God in being a family

The Story begins becoming to understand the first sacrifice and why God always says, "I will always “Choose” the Living Sacrifice.

What was the First “Living” Sacrifice?

Hint, two words first word starts with an F. and second word starts with an L.
Hint, “Why are you hiding?”

Adam and Eve go like, "hey God we’re hiding here, can’t you see the fig leaf?

Adam and Eve are the classic example of reading a book or even trying to resolve salvation on one’s own. Like The Parable of the brain surgeon told to me by a Mystic priest in Pensacola, where the doctor uses a book to fix himself and in the end if I remember it doesn’t end well.

Even though the fig leaf was a living sacrifice, it was not one God chose.

Peace always,
Stephen Andrew

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This is not a weird question at all. I will, however, volley this question over to @CanadianPriest : )

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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 another’s feet, as Jesus commanded in the upper room. Priests walk through this world like everyone else and need their “feet” to be cleansed. (I believe Fr. Dodaro was quoting St. Augustine, but I am not 100% on that.)

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