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Australian Priests Could be Forced to Breach Seal of the Confessional
The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11/14/12 | Jonathan Pearlman

Posted on 11/14/2012 10:52:47 AM PST by marshmallow

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To: stuartcr

You’ll have to take that up with Jesus.


41 posted on 11/15/2012 7:02:36 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Good answer


42 posted on 11/15/2012 7:03:33 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: stuartcr

I don’t understand the value of it anyway. The pope can’t change something that his priests do, yet a priest can tell someone to do penance, and then it’s ok?


The Catholic Church have been telling every one for many years that the Pope is the VICAR of CHRIST if that is true which i think not then they would have more power than any Government on this earth, or at least should have, in fact for many years they did.

Just as the Bible tells us, keep your self, that is your sins unspotted from the world but we are to confess our sins to one another.

Most of us would not be willing to turn one of our brothers in for something, at least if we thought they would repent and we would not even think of doing that to our father or mother.

Those who follow Jesus are his brothers, sisters and fathers and mothers and they are also each others of the same.

Personally i think there are many people wants other people to think the only sins are those of the church, and as bad as it may be i don,t think they are any worse than the average people, and saints compared to the people who are now running this nation.

So even if i don,t agree with the catholic church and do not entirely agree with most of the other churches.

If not for them i would not even know the gospel of Jesus which is more important to me than all of the laws in the whole wide world.


43 posted on 11/15/2012 7:31:18 AM PST by ravenwolf
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To: ravenwolf

So what is the value of confession?


44 posted on 11/15/2012 8:07:58 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: DuncanWaring

So what is the value of confession if God already knows what you did and what is in your heart?


45 posted on 11/15/2012 8:56:01 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: stuartcr

What’s the value of a marriage ceremony if God already knows what’s in the hearts of the principals?


46 posted on 11/15/2012 8:59:04 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Besides not even being an answer, that isn’t even related. If ya can’t answer just say so or at least guess.


47 posted on 11/15/2012 9:03:30 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: stuartcr

It cleans your soul of sins so that you may spend Eternity somewhere other than in the Fires of Hell.


48 posted on 11/15/2012 9:08:45 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: stuartcr

Forgiveness of sins requires their formal acknowlegement and repentance.

That’s the position of the Roman Catholic Church, derived from the teachings of Jesus.

If you don’t like it, too bad; take it up with Jesus.

You remind me of a two-year-old, endlessly and mindlessly asking Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?


49 posted on 11/15/2012 9:11:59 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Pedophiles don’t go to hell if they’ve gone to confession?


50 posted on 11/15/2012 9:17:20 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: DuncanWaring

So when people grow up, they shouldn’t ask why? They should just be sheeple? How else do people find out about stuff if they don’t ask why?


51 posted on 11/15/2012 9:20:15 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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If they’ve actually repented, not just gone through the motions, no they don’t.


52 posted on 11/15/2012 9:43:03 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Why do they have to tell a priest, doesn’t God know this? How does the priest know they’ve actually repented and not just gone through the motions?


53 posted on 11/15/2012 9:47:04 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: stuartcr

For the first question, see Post 49.

For the second question, absolution is given but doesn’t actually count without actual repentence. The priest doesn’t know, and doesn’t have to.


54 posted on 11/15/2012 9:49:53 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

So the only reason the priest is there, is so someone can confess to another man? OK, thanks...makes one wonder why it even has to be a priest then?


55 posted on 11/15/2012 9:56:04 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: stuartcr

See Post 41.


56 posted on 11/15/2012 9:57:44 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Good safe answer, thanks


57 posted on 11/15/2012 9:59:54 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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They can help put pedophiles away now. They just can’t reveal the substance of confessions. By the way, legally these cannot be used anyway. But, is there any evidence that the info on these testimony of these confessions would help convict anybody? I doubt many of these pedophiles actually confess to their crimes. Is there a single case where this is known to be the case? I don’t know of any. I just know, “all Catholics are evil.”


58 posted on 11/15/2012 10:01:40 AM PST by nickcarraway
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If you ask enough people, I think you’ll find that just about everyone is evil.


59 posted on 11/15/2012 10:05:09 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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So what is the value of confession?


I did not learn of Christ by going to Church, i learned by reading the Bible for the purpose of proving to myself that this person called Jesus was nothing more than some one trying to make people believe he was the son of God.

The opposite happened, i don,t know how, at any rate although i wanted to be around people who had the same experience that i had i did not think i was even fit to call my self a Christian and still don,t for that matter, although i did not get it from the Bible.

Although there are few people, even Christians who understand, i finally did talk to some one and found that they also had been worried about the same thing.

I was made aware that Jesus and his apostles were outlaws as far as this world were concerned and that even a thief can repent and be saved.

The apostles were not a bunch of china dolls, they were men, yet in my view so many Christians would not even consider our lord himself to be a christian, so i do not even go to church any more.

Because i can not be other than what i am, good or bad.

I don,t know that this confession that we are talking about does any good at all but if a man or woman can see themselves in the same light they could see some one else it may help them to over come what they hate about them selves.


60 posted on 11/15/2012 11:08:24 AM PST by ravenwolf
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