(November 26, 2022 at 3:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 26, 2022 at 2:30 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Most Catholics do not go to Confession, though.
A Catholic who doesn’t go to confession is a Catholic who isn’t worried about sin in the first place.
And, for the record, confession and penance are not required for sins to be forgiven.
Boru
1484 "Individual, integral confession and absolution remain the only ordinary way for the faithful to reconcile themselves with God and the Church, unless physical or moral impossibility excuses from this kind of confession."95 There are profound reasons for this. Christ is at work in each of the sacraments. He personally addresses every sinner: "My son, your sins are forgiven."96 He is the physician tending each one of the sick who need him to cure them.97 He raises them up and reintegrates them into fraternal communion. Personal confession is thus the form most expressive of reconciliation with God and with the Church.
