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From: ptl@fluke.UUCP (Mike Andrews)
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Subject: Re: Different Views (Protestant and Catholic)
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 11:56:44 EST
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Hi,

Just to let you know the Roman Catholic church has two forms of
confession - individual and communal.  Individual confession also
has a couple of forms: the penetant can either go to the priest
in a confessional or meet him face to face in his office or wherever
both agree on.  The confessional allows the penetant to have some
form of anonymity (not much, though :-) ), whereas face to face could
be just sitting in chairs, sharing with the priest the burden of the
sins that bring you to seek his counsel and God's blessings.
The communal form is where everyone meets together in church, prays
for forgiveness, trusts God for it, then the priest gives what's called
a general absolution, again in God's Name.  Yes, God is the One who forgives
the sins, the priest is His `personal touch', as an ordained servant of God.
Scripturally, I believe the passage `what is loosed on earth is loosed in
Heaven, what is bound on earth is bound in Heaven' is where absolution comes
from.  If anyone is interested, I'll look more into it for you.  Matter of
fact, it'd be fun to learn more about absolution anyway!

God Bless,

Mike Andrews
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