Not to God the Father. The only mediator between God the Father and the believer is God the Son. One might seek recompense for our sins amongst whom we have caused harm by our sin.
Remission of sin by God is turning away from sin and facing back to God, then confessing our sins to God the Father, through faith in what Christ provided on the Cross, the Perfect Sacrifice, and expiation for ALL human sin, past, present, and future,...this is the method to return to fellowship with God on His grounds.
Confession to a Roman Catholic Priest is NOT confession to God the Father, but is a counterfeit substitute for faith in what Christ provided at the Cross. RCC confession through a RCC priest is generally AntiChristian.
This is manifest by a large number of Roman Catholics who adamently attend their confessionals, but continue to wallow in bitterness and spiritual degeneration by never returning to God through faith in Christ, but turn instead to a counterfeit substitute system of blasphemy, pretending to religiously be associated with Christ, but performing all sorts of blasphemous practice.
Agreed with everything you wrote there.
Having said that, confessing your sins to a minister or pastor, or to one another, and then hearing the assurance of salvation and forgiveness from that other through the Word of God is healthy for the Christian life.
Jesus delegated to the Apostles and successors - Go Preach and Baptize and forgiveness of sins.
Show me where Jesus stated that sins are forgiven directly?