“Another idiotic statement. Every Catholic is always in a need to confess his sins.”
In need of confession, yes, but not necessarily in stark want of a confessor if they are living in normal circumstances. Someone in a situation - such as being close to death - in a place where there is no Catholic priest would certainly be a person in need.
“Why do you ignore the qualifications of “physically or morally impossible”?”
I didn’t ignore it. I’m the one who posted it.
“Under what absurd conditions do you think a Catholic cannot morally confess his sins to a Catholic priest, Sherlock?”
That’s simple:
1) “physically”
- no priest available
- approaching death
- person who wishes to confess is denied chance to by someone else (e.g. EO husband who refuses to allow Catholic wife to attend Catholic services with threats of violence)
2) “morally”
- priest is a relative (confessing might cause greater scandal within family)
- priest is known to commit sigilism: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/filipino_priest_excommunicated_for_violating_the_secrecy_of_confession/
- priest has abused the person who wants to confess
- person who wishes to confess is denied chance to by someone else (e.g. EO husband who refuses to allow Catholic wife to attend Catholic services with threats of violence)
“Could it be that his confessor is Marx or Kasper?”
So desperate.
What's "normal circumstances"?