Confession

[yrieithydd]

Auricular confession raises Protestant hackles as soon as it's mentioned. `Christ is the only Mediator; we do not need to go through a priest to be forgiven', they say. And yes, that's all true, but it completely misses the point. It's not about having to go through a priest to be forgiven, but a gift from God, a Sacrament, for our benefit. We don'

Comments

[yrieithydd]

IT sounds it. I must read Angela's Ashes

[caliston]

I think I agree. Though it does put a strain on the priest to be able to contain the confessions he has heard. I wonder whether issues of abuse come out of different views of the Church: Protestant post-Reformation "The Church is fallible: let's try to cut it out as much as possible", Catholic "The Church is inherently good, though it gets things wrong at times". The former seems to be the prevailing culture in much of my (Protestant-leaning/secular) experience.