Protestants confessing to a Catholic priest

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Catechumens and candidates have to go through reconciliation prior to receiving communion.

I know priests have performed last rites on non-Catholics that had no intentions on ever converting.

If someone was a Protestant, and not converting to Catholicism, I don’t know why they would.

for some reason i have no problem with that 2nd thing… but don’t know if it is proper…??

 

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I think (I do not know) that when a Catholic Priest hears a Confession of a Non-Catholic (unless under Code of Canon Law, they are permitted to…like Orthodox Christians for example), the priest is not bound by the Sacrament of the Confession meaning he is allowed to reveal the Confession and also that he is not permitted to absolve the sins of the person confession.

Really it just boils down to telling your sins to anyone else, they’ll listen, but cannot free you from your sin and they are allowed to disclose the sins to anyone if they want to.

Bottom line, if you want to have a guarentee that your Confession will be kept private and that you will be freed from your sin, then become a Catholic or an Orthodox Christian already!

i can’t imagine a priest revealing anyone’s sins, though!!!

 

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A priest might not be bound by Canon law to keep confessions confidential of a non-Catholic or non-Orthodox, but he IS bound by the clergy-penitent confidentiality laws of the state under penalty of law. Those laws apply to Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Jewish clergy alike.

dont’ know for Sure but don’t think it is correct to say that the priest is not bound to secrecy…

that makes no sense… what difference does it make whether he is Catholic or not?

the only time i can see this being an issue is if the priest were called to court to testify in a child molestation case or murder or something like that… (the penitent told him he did something like tht) but even then, my guess is he is supposed to keep it secret.

 

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Is this something readily known by Methodists? I have been playing in Methodist churches for over 6 years(which is why my son now attends a Methodist church), and this is honestly the first I have heard this. I never heard it from the pulpit, or read it in their bulletins. In the front of the hymnal, in the order of communion, I remember a prayer of Confession, followed by the pastor saying,“Your sins are forgiven.” The congregation then repeats that. Is this dependent upon what an individual pastor chooses to do? Just trying to understand.

i don’t think a lot of protestant churches focus on sin/confession because they think that Jesus paid the price on the Cross and there is nothing we ourselves can do except repent. a lot of churches just think a one-time repentance is all that’s required… a one-time acceptance of Christ…

i am not familiar with the methodist way of doing things, though…