1 Timothy 2:5 KJV — For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Can priests absolve you without you confessing?
Robert Gray
Angel Perez
No. You need to confess every sin.
How do you expect someone to forgive you if you don't accuse yourself?
When asking forgiveness to a king who must say what you did wrong.
Your sins cannot be worse than mine, so go ahead like I did. Besides the priest has heard worse and he is forbidden to ask you why or judge even if you say you used to be a faggot who sucked 200 dicks forgive the vulgarity.
Sometimes I wished pic related so true so much. But the way to God is never easy
Logan Moore
John 20:22-23 KJV - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
James 5:16 KJV Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Hunter Rivera
Can you believe there is no contradiction between 1 Timothy 2:5 and John 20:21-23?
There's not even any contradiction between Timothy 2:5 and James 5:14-15!
Therefore there is no contradiction between 1 Timothy 2:5 and this situation, either. I believe that Protestants contradict James 5:14-15 all the day though, which is worrying.
Austin Campbell
I don't think that's legitimate in Catholicism because the minister of the sacrament of penance is the priest of the Bishop only.
There could be a case for example if the priest was deaf and someone had to translate the stuff to him, but in this case I don't think he would have the permission of the Bishop to "hear" confession unless it was an emergency (imminent death, all the eccleasiastic prohibitions are instantly lifted).
Either way those persons as well as the priest would be under the vow of confidentiality under the penalty of excommunication and grievous temporal penalties.
Colton Gomez
That is if the priest opened his mouth which I can count with my hands the times that happened in the last 2000 years.
Dominic Murphy
Kayden Harris
Meant for
Lucas Carter
Not gonna even discuss every point of your pic but whoever wrote it knows much about Catholicism as I know about liberal arts.
The apostles don't possess the power to forgive sins, they forgive them in the name of Christ. It's Christ that forgives sins, as the pharisees well said only God forgives sins.
William Collins
A proof of that is that if one is not truly regret it doesn't matter how many times one goes to confession and the priests forgives him. He commits sacrilege because God knows he isn't truly sorry and therefore He doesn't forgive him.