[redhead]

"It must be acknowledged that many priests have not prepared themselves sufficiently to administer the sacrament of penance, and they are not familiar with the implications related to moral theology and canon law."

Not only this, but sinful priests will not want to spend any time in the confessional. Since they probably don't have much of a prayer life, the importance of the Sacrament of Penance will not only be a nuisance to them, but will probably even be a goad to their consciences. Deep and intimate prayer and a life of sinful excess hardly go together. Give me a priest who PRAYS when nobody is LOOKING!

[holyscroller]

Not being Catholic, I probably shouldn't comment, but it seems to me it should be the PRIESTS who have been living in sin who are doing the confessing. How can a priest who is full of sin up to his eyeballs forgive anybody of anything?