Going to confession

No it is not really annonymous. Most churchs do not even have that confessional "booth" you see on TV and movies.. Many times you just go to the priest's office and sit down face to face to talk. It is definately not confidential unless you are in a HUGE church or go to a church that you have never been to before or rarely attend.

I only make my confession to God, I ask him to forgive me. for all my sins. Those are catholics that does that, go to church and make a confession to the priest.

Well i have never been to confession personally. But my girlfriend did once. SHe is christain and she went to god to confess that she have kissed me. I know its funny but it was a long time back. Well it was great listening to the whole story from her mouth.

It's never really made sense to me either. My parents were raised catholic but by the time I came around, they had already given up on organized religion. Therefor, all I know of confession is through distant relatives who still practice. I agree, it seems that doing it one on one with your god would be the way to go, why use the middle man?

LOL I love it Ravenladyj, "There is no need" You got it! I went to catholic schools growing up and I remember my first confession was done right in front of the priest. No booth or anything, just us sitting beside each other in chairs. I was scared out of my mind. I told my sins. I swore and hated my mom. I had to say a few prayers and I was forgiven. Jeepers I wasn't really sorry either. COOL! But really I still swear and if my mother was alive I would probably still hate her. I stopped confession when I was old enough to choose. I started seeing all these people I knew where sinning taking host during mass and I thought "hey I can't take it cause I know I am with sin in the eyes of the catholic faith and I know you are??" I started feeling that people go there for an hour a week and then are jerks all week but thats okay cause they are good people who go to church. If you aren't praticing the faith then you're not really that are you? I am not catholic anymore and I didn't baptise my childern. They can pick what feels right to them when they want to. I think just being a good person and teaching my childern to be good people is what is important. Not sitting there saying your sorry for actions you know you will do again and having some guy say you are forgiven. I tell people the only people I need to forgive me of my actions are my maker and my childern cause I choose to bring them into it, they didn't have a choice. But noone else do I have to say sorry to for what I do. Wow I kinda ran on there.... Oh well LOL Vicki