Scripture never teaches that one is justfied by absolution from a priest.
Read the Bible again:
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” (John 20:22-23)This is what the Bible says. Any attempt to remove the plain meaning of these words is placing the manmade traditions of the Protestant reforms over the words of the Bible.