What Aramis said. I a way I agree too that it is hard to do confessions when you’re within an earshot of other people. Although my last RC parish was able to accomplish this. We didn’t have confessionals, just the kneelers with the screen. And when we have confession service, there’s 4-6 priests around the parish and lots of people. But it was never a problem.
Your just full of love for Latinizations aren’t you?
There is no such thing as a good Latinization! 
Smad…why not work within the tradition rather then impose another Latinization? The church where I attend on a more or less regular basis is a tiny chapel no more then 20 feet from the Iconastasis to the back wall of the chapel. There are usually at least 50 or more people crammed in (dont tell the fire marshalCiero,
I went to a Latin Catholic high school ran by the Christian Brothes. They started having Confessions about once a month in the Chapel, so people who were confessing were in the same room with the people waiting in line with absolutley no barriers. Confessions were done in about 20 min. Then they moved the Confessions into offices, with windows in the door for insurance purposes, with the people waiting outside. Confessions took on average 4 hours more on every occassion than before.
Traditions, small t, are very important to you. Good for you. But when I see a Latinization that helps the spiritual life of the people, except for messing with the Office or Liturgy, I am all for it. The Church is about bringing people to Christ, not about upholding small t traditions.
Also my UGCC parish that has Confessionals has more Confessions in a week than the Maronite Parish, that does not have Confessionals, in 6 months even though that parish easily is four times larger than my parish.
I think Latinizations should be optional, and if it helps the people spiritually than that is great. The Liturgy and Office, being the public prayer of the Church, must be untouched. Some people, on the other hand, would rather have a parish full of small t traditions at the expense of giving the people a full range of spiritual medicine to help them in their journeys.
). Confessions are heard at the iconastasis where it is properly done. Almost all of those 50 people will confess. Confessions are heard during the reading of the 3rd & 6th hours before Divine Liturgy, by hearing confessions while the reading of the Office is going on…people cant hear what is going on between priest and penitent. If confessions run longer then the hours either the Divine Liturgy starts or if there is only one priest that day the cantor will start reading the pre communion prayers aloud. This both takes care of the “problem” as well as keeping things within the tradition. The local Ruthenian parish has turned their old confessional into a great broom closet. 
. I have seen plenty of teenage girls come out of Confession crying, and heard them sobbing moments before. For the moments like that the Confessional is superior. Heck I have seen the same happen with veterans, so it might be superior for everyone when the Grace of Christ finally breaks down all the barriers. 
I disagree that confessionals are superior in any way shape or form. There is NO NEED for any Latinizations of our Eastern traditions. I guess we agree to disagree.Those are great ideas for the hearing issue. Truly I had never thought of them. But I come back to the emotional issue, especially considering the fact that I hope teenages will be at my Church one day again
Why then think of it as Latinization? Just call it a really tiny room for hearing confessionI disagree that confessionals are superior in any way shape or form. There is NO NEED for any Latinizations of our Eastern traditions. I guess we agree to disagree.
Made me LOL.Why then think of it as Latinization? Just call it a really tiny room for hearing confession
If 5Loaves’ Russian Catholic parish can have a small room for confessions, ours too! Only the room is small enough to fit only one person and has a window to another small room where the priest would sit. Its not a confessional, just two small rooms adjacent to each other with a window
The new Latin Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland has something akin to that, The confessionals have a chair and a kneeler, which if you sit in the chair you face the priest but he is on the other side of a sort of grid of 2X4s with so much spacing in between each board you can easily see one another. The kneeler faces the grid right where the priests chair is on the other side of the grid, so that from the kneeling position the priest has his shoulder/ear to you. So the priest in his chair doesn’t move but the place the penitent chooses on the other side of the grid, chair or kneeler, determines the physical relationship between the two. I like the arrangement. There is nothing that really separates this area from the rest of the Cathedral in terms of a wall so people waiting in line can’t exactly hear what the priest and penitent are saying, can’t see them, but you can hear their voices.
I know this is an old thread but I stand during confession and bow during the absolution