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Online Confession: Nixxed by Philippine Catholic Church
Topic Started: Apr 19 2011, 10:43 AM (347 Views)
Jiggy
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Bishops set against online confession
Published Date: February 15, 2011
From: http://www.cathnewsphil.com/2011/02/15/bishops-set-against-online-confession/

CONFESSIONS must be made in person and not online, an official from the Philippines Catholic bishops’ conference has said.

“The nature of the sacrament is that confession should be a person to person dialogue between the penitent and the priest,” said Monsignor Pedro Quitorio III, the conference’s media director.

He was reacting to confusion over several reports which suggest a new iPhone application called “Confession: A Roman Catholic App” will enable people to confess their sins online.

The application aims to help Catholics who haven’t gone to confession keep track of their sins.

“How can you gain absolution if there is no priest?” Monsignor Quitorio, said.

He said confessions should be made according to Canon Law.

“Unless it’s pastorally unavoidable, confessions should be made in a confessional box using procedure according to the sacraments,” the monsignor added.

“The purpose of the application is just to help the faithful go about making a confession. It’s not about confessing directly,” Monsignor Quitorio clarified.

Still, he said, it’s good that the issue has given the Church the opportunity to talk about confession.

“Every misunderstanding is an opportunity for knowledge…. This is an opportunity for us to explain what confession is, particularly to the young,” he said.

The monsignor seems to be implying that priests either do not use computers to communicate via emails or that the Catholic Church prohibits priests from using emails. Confession by email is a form of communication: there is a recipient and a sender. The recipient would be the priest in this case, and the sender would be the person confessing. How can that form of communication not be considered a person-to-person dialogue? Are priests, bishops and monsignors that unaware about email technology? Confessing directly to priests makes me very uncomfortable specially with many of the Philippine churches now having no more confessional box. Confession should be a private thing, not in full view of other people on queue waiting for their turn to confess. That makes me doubly uncomfortable. What say you, folks?
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