Priests & Confession

[mavisleo]

thank you for your stories. It really does help me understand.

 

[thistle]

I heard once that priests actually do acts of penance for their penitents every time people confess to them. Is this true? I can’t see to find anything on it in the Catechism.

If it is true, what types of penances do they do? And do they do penance for each individual person who confesses to them or just in general for all the people who come to them?

However, that is not in place of the penitent doing his penance. We are all obliged to perform our penance. That cannot be taken over by the priest.