He told the apostles, Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them. Whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.
Ah, yes, ANOTHER misunderstood passage Catholics have been taught means their "priests" have inherited a power to forgive or retain sins that Jesus ONLY gave to his Apostles. Yet, we have NO examples of the Apostles ever actually doing that. Wonder why? The preaching of the gospel of the grace of God is how anyone can be forgiven for all their sins when they believe. If someone refuses to believe in Jesus Christ, his sins are not forgiven. Are you aware that the RC practice of private "auricular" (to the ear) confession to a priest was NOT practiced until the 7th. century! Your own catechism admits that:
You can read more if you dare HERE.
Here is a better understanding of what Jesus said:
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, etc.In any literal and authoritative sense this power was never exercised by one of the apostles, and plainly was never understood by themselves as possessed by them or conveyed to them. (See on [1919]Mt 16:19). The power to intrude upon the relation between men and God cannot have been given by Christ to His ministers in any but a ministerial or declarative senseas the authorized interpreters of His word, while in the actings of His ministers, the real nature of the power committed to them is seen in the exercise of church discipline. (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary)
I predict that you will continue to post this verse as if NOTHING was ever said to explain it properly so as to presume Jesus was Apostlizing every Roman Catholic priest that ever existed to hear "confession".