To: Salvation; .45MAN
As someone who will make their first Confession in over 25 years next week, I find this article very ambiguous. It's strange, too, because when I asked the priest-in-charge for a face-to-face Confession (feeling it would be better handled this way after so many years) he patiently explained that it is done both ways, now, by request. But still one-on-one. Now, from this article (and from speaking to my mother) I find that some parishes have done away with one-on-one Confession altogether. On whose authority?
Such ambiguousness and waffling on important sacramental issues is part of what drove me away in the first place. I really think it would be best if the Church adhered to the Vatican and did not cave into instituting touchy-feely stuff to their numbers up.
We belong to a very Conservative Roman Catholic Church and its numbers have swelled so much there are plans to build a bigger Church. Conservatism obviously does not drive the faithful away.
14 posted on
11/25/2003 10:02:39 AM PST by
dansangel
(*PROUD to be a knuckle-dragging, toothless, inbred, right-wing, Southern, gun-toting Neanderthal *)
To: dansangel
Check out #17
20 posted on
11/25/2003 10:31:18 AM PST by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: dansangel
**I really think it would be best if the Church adhered to the Vatican and did not cave into instituting touchy-feely stuff to their numbers up.**
And you are totally correct!
21 posted on
11/25/2003 10:32:51 AM PST by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
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