Invalid confession - 7th commandment

[petrusp64]

So, last month I went to confession, and I told the priest a great number of sins. One of the things I told the priest was that I received a certain quantity of money from the government, when I had not the right to that (fraud). The priest didn’t comment on that, and later I didn’t really know if I had repented (I was pretty much focused on the other sins). I was struggling with this and thinking if I should return the money, but it took me a while to do so, and only today I made it. Was it a invalid confession? Should I confess all of those sins again? Or the fact that I ended up giving the money back makes it valid anyway?

 

[Lou2U]

If the Priest absolved you, it was valid.

Please talk to your Priest about this worry, though. It sounds like it could be scrupulous, so please be careful about it. Your Priest is the best person to advise you.

Here’s a good post from Fr @edward_george1 about confession:

Please stop describing your sins in detail! Moral Theology

I’m a priest. I hear confessions. And I can tell you, you don’t even need to go into detail in confession!! It’s better if you don’t. If you just say “I committed X sin Y times,” that suffices. And if I’m not clear on what you mean, I’ll ask! But detail has a danger, that we start explaining things to try to justify them. It’s better for our humility to just admit what we did and accept God’s forgiveness and get out! Be brief, be bold, be gone! -Fr ACEGC