The difference between you and metmom is that you don’t seem like the type to make flat out and absolute assertions like she did especially and specifically to contradict what I just posted.
It seems you are more circumspect and ask more questions.
You probably deduced for yourself that what you may have heard growing up in a Catholic neighborhood does not make you an expert.
Now the egregiousness of metmom statement is SHE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, yet she open up her mouth to contradict a faithful Catholic.
As I mentioned to another poster, most of the arguments even when they get vehement it is all quoting scripture or the apostolic Fathers and the differences come down to interpretations - sometimes of the exact same quote.
I rarely this kind of breathless ‘oh I gotcha’.
For the Greater Glory of God
I *should have known better*? Why? Because you thought so?
You yourself just posted that priests and women didn't have face to face confessions? How should I have *known better* then?
And then you admit you hadn't heard of them either for a number of years, until you did as an altar boy.
Did you know of them before that?
If someone had said something to you about face to face confessions before you had heard of them, would you not have denied that they existed?
So just when did this face to face confession thing begin to be *popular*.
You sound like the the guy who temped Christ in the wilderness. Don’t worry, I don’t like your complement ether.