Confession Question

[Theoketos]

We are all sayin alot of I think

Here is an authority

[url="http://www.catholicherald.com/saunders/99ws/ws991118.htm"]http://www.catholicherald.com/saunders/99ws/ws991118.htm[/url]

[Theoketos]

Can. 980 If the confessor has no doubt about the disposition of the penitent, and the penitent seeks absolution, absolution is to be neither refused nor deferred.

Can. 983 §1. The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.

Can. 987 To receive the salvific remedy of the sacrament of penance, a member of the Christian faithful must be disposed in such a way that, rejecting sins committed and having a purpose of amendment, the person is turned back to God.

[Theoketos]

The last part about the sinner being disposed in such a way is really pertinent.

To say that you are going to sin means that you are not repentant.

[Dave]

Thanks, Theotekos!

[Theoketos]

Bump

(I think )

[supernerd]

[quote name='Colleen' date='Apr 3 2004, 07:54 PM'] A little off topic, but has anyone seen Alfred Hitchcock's [i]I Confess[/i]? It's a story about a priest who hears a muderer's confession and then gets accused of murder, but he refuses to break the seal of Confession. It's excellent. [/quote]
That sounds like a true story. I've never seen the movie, but I know there was a priest who had a murderer confess to him that he had killed someone. The priest told him to turn himself into the police, but instead the murderer hid the knife in the priest's bed and called the police and told them that the priest had murdered the person. The priest never said the truth. He ending up dying in prison, and after, the true murderer told the police the truth. The priest is now a saint.

[the lumberjack]

so who does the pope confess to?

[Dave]

[quote name='the lumberjack' date='Apr 4 2004, 10:20 PM'] so who does the pope confess to? [/quote]
Any priest or bishop! Heck, he has his own confessor, I believe.

[the lumberjack]

so if the pope sins, how can he be infallible?

[willguy]

[quote name='the lumberjack' date='Apr 4 2004, 10:25 PM'] so if the pope sins, how can he be infallible? [/quote]
Paul sinned. Yet the books he wrote that are in the Bible are infallible. The Pope is not infallible in all aspects of his life. The infallibility of the pope only applies when he speaks "ex cathedra" on matters of faith. See the reference section for more.

[Dave]

[quote name='the lumberjack' date='Apr 4 2004, 10:25 PM'] so if the pope sins, how can he be infallible? [/quote]
Infallibility has nothing to do with moral impeccability. All it means is that when the Pope teaches on faith or morals either in union with the bishops of the world or ex cathedra, that is, from the chair -- his fullest capacity as teacher and shepherd -- that he cannot teach incorrectly.

[Theoketos]

In fact the Pope could be sinning (by cusing for eg) while he was making an infalliable statement.

But whole could really see JP II doing that?