DRE forcing children to do face-to-face confessions

[Andreas_Hofer]

Puzzleannie, I would love this to be true but I’m not sure. I did my first confession in the Houston diocese relatively near you, and there is still a record of it in that parish to this day. In fact I had to have that record printed before my wedding, and again for my annulment paperwork. There is a certificate at the church showing the celebrant of the sacrament and the date, and for my marriage and annulment it had to be typed onto the back of my babtismal certificate.

cecilia

The seal of confession extends even to cover the very fact of a sacramental confession taking place, so it seems highly inappropriate for the parish to keep records of that. Of course, if each penitent went into the parish office and volunteered that information it would get around the seal (since the penitent would be making it public knowledge, not something known from the confessional) but still, on the whole, probably ill-advised.

 

[Andreas_Hofer]

Puzzleannie, I would love this to be true but I’m not sure. I did my first confession in the Houston diocese relatively near you, and there is still a record of it in that parish to this day. In fact I had to have that record printed before my wedding, and again for my annulment paperwork. There is a certificate at the church showing the celebrant of the sacrament and the date, and for my marriage and annulment it had to be typed onto the back of my babtismal certificate.

cecilia

 

[cecilia97]

I just dug out the paperwork from my file. Annie was mostly right, that’s a good thing! Only First Eucharist is listed, along with all my other sacraments. But I do have the First Confession certificate showing the date and celebrant. You’d think that certificate is just for family and maybe they don’t keep a record of it at the office after that.

I must have extrapolated that the confession was on there since it was the same week as first Eucharist. My bad.