Confession

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Why is the precedure of Confession done the way it is done.
 
Lenard Anders J:
Why are confession done and why it is done the way it’s done.
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Can you tell us a little more about what you are asking? I see from your profile that you are Catholic. Therefor, I sense that you are trying to learn something specific.
 
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Can you tell us a little more about what you are asking? I see from your profile that you are Catholic. Therefor, I sense that you are trying to learn something specific.
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Here’s a good tract from Catholic Answers on Confession… I hope this answers your question, but I’m not sure I fully understood it.

Confession Tract

Peace and Charity,
 
Lenard Anders J:
Why must Catholic members go inside a booth.
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Ah. We don’t have to go inside a booth.

Booths were developed to insure anonymity. It was thought (wisely) that people would be more comfortable if the Priest could not see who was coming and going.

Although it is canonically dictated confessions should, as a rule, be heard in church, you don’t have to use “the box.” Confessions can even be heard outdoors, on shipdeck, from a sickbed, in a car. My confessor meets me by appointment and hears my confession in his office. Today in Catholic Churches you will often find a space that has been adapted so that the penitent (the person coming to confess) has the choice of kneeling behind a screen or walking around the screen to a space where there are two chairs – one for the priest and one for the penitent, so that confession is made face-to-face.

Any other questions?
 
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