[Karl Spooner]

I went to confession plenty growing up and never had a face to face. It's always been in a booth with a window that had a screen and a sliding window for privacy.

I grew up with catholic children in the neighborhood and that's the way they described it to me. Guess that make me a liar, too :)

[metmom]

I grew up with catholic children in the neighborhood and that's the way they described it to me. Guess that make me a liar, too :)

Welcome aboard.....

Somehow, relating what I experienced while growing up that doesn't lockstep match what other Catholics may have experienced, makes me *poorly catechized* and making *direct falsehoods*.

It appears that many Catholics cannot come to grips with the idea that someone may have experienced different ways of doing things in the Catholic church.

[LurkingSince'98]

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