Me too. I answer to Jesus Christ. The Bible makes it CLEAR that ONLY through HIM to I get to heaven, not some guy in a booth on the other side of the curtain can forgive my sins. ONLY Jesus Christ can forgive sins. NO WHERE in the Bible does it say that He delegated that to someone else.
That is something I have never understood. Why do they confess to a man when God is always available anywhere, any time? No man s sinless so how can they forgive anyone?