Damned Catholics

[Fake Messiah]

People in Poland tried to ban kids from giving confession to the priests, to spare them the embarrassment, not to mention inappropriate intrusion of grown men listening to kids talking about masturbation, and to avoid giving kids complexions that they are sinners. The Church would have none of it, and are going into a persecution complex mode proclaiming it to be, what else, Stalinism.

This is from the Catholic Church affiliated site:

Polish petition to ban kids’ Confession “complete nonsense”



A new petition submitted to the Sejm – the lower house of the Polish Parliament – has proposed a ban on sacramental Confession for children below the age of 18. Such a bill would create a myriad of problems, not least of all that it would also push back First Communion to the age of 18, as First Communion is usually preceded by sacramental Confession.

The report notes that one of the objections listed in the petition is that it “prematurely confronts minors with the concept of good and evil.” The argument raises the question of when children are of an age in which they should be confronted with such concepts. Białecka points to studies that have found that children as young as pre-school age understand when they have done wrong. Furthermore, confronting their wrong-doing is pivotal to their moral development.

Poznań Metropolitan Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki called the proposal to ban childhood sacramental Confessions “complete nonsense.”

Archbishop Gądecki also took exception to the petition’s description of Confession, posing it as “an experience of humiliation and fear, a traumatic, nasty event that children did not want and were unable to defend themselves against."

This, he mused, reminded him of “what we faced under Stalinism.”

https://aleteia.org/2025/01/15/polish-pe...e-nonsense