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Can a retired priest give confession

  • 18-04-2014 3:21pm
    #1
    expectationlost
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    question can a "retired priest" give confession?


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  • #2
    The Dagda
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    Give or take?


  • #3
    Snake
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    expectationlost wrote: »
    question can a "retired priest" give confession?

    Yup. You're always a priest, you just don't preach anymore.. But they're I believe they're not bound by the "secrecy" lark so if you murdered someone you're best going to an active priest


  • #4
    expectationlost
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    retrogamefan wrote: »
    Yup. You're always a priest, you just don't preach anymore.. But they're I believe they're not bound by the "secrecy" lark so if you murdered someone you're best going to an active priest

    what if this retired priest considered themselves bound to secrecy of confession?


  • #5
    neemish
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    No such thing as a "retired" priest. There are priests who have been released from daily duties because of age or illness, but the same rules apply to them. They still have to say Mass every day if possible, and yes, are most definitely bound by the secrecy of the confessional.


  • #6
    expectationlost
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    ah so diarmaid martin needs to come up with a better distraction


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  • #7
    Benny_Cake
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    expectationlost wrote: »
    ah so diarmaid martin needs to come up with a better distraction

    I'm not following - some context?


  • #8
    Mrs OBumble
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    Above is true. But a priest just cannot show up wherver he wants, proclaim "I'm a priest for Where-ever ville and can do the sacraments for ya".

    If they do, then they will be violating church law, which says they have to be accredited (or whatever it's called) to the local bishop, and the local bishop has to satisfy himself that the priest is fit to be in public ministry - as opposed to someone who is running away from abuse claims overseas!

    (This happened quite a bit in the Pacific, and I'd assume Africa, too.)

    So it's not quite as simple as you might like, and for good reasons.


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