Message #4781

[tracihello]

Or maybe faults in this context is when you sin AGAINST that OTHER person?

What I'm saying is that if, let's say, you steal $5 from the cafeteria lady, do you confess this sin to, let's say, some girl you know in your neighborhood who doesn't even go to your school? No, of course not - you confess this to that cafeteria lady you stole from, and then pay back the money you stole.

Or let's look at another example - if, let's say, you have lu**** l thoughts over your friend's girlfriend(and don't go as far as that) - do you confess this to your friend? Or to his girlfriend? OF COURSE NOT!

I mean where the Roman Catholic system goes wrong is that you can sin whatever sin you want, and a confessional they say will do the trick(ie-all those young boys that get molested by priests, but those priests and Jesuits still have their jobs b/c they made their confessional to their fellow priests).

I think this is the context they may be talking about.

I agree. Plus, an ex-priest-now-born-again-Christian said that when he used to hear confessions, the details of the confessions caused him temptation... and it comes from a Pagan tradition anyway, that religionists would confess their sins to priests and priests would hold it over them. It is good to try to make sure one has done all that one can to make right what he can any sin he committed.... though, as you said, not confess to a neighbor or his wife that you lusted after him...