Why would anybody want to become a priest/nun?

Supernova wrote:



Problem is since they can't talk about people's confessions, you don't know that they don't.

I think they ought to make it once a year, or once a decade, then the list of what you can even remember doing will really make it worth their time.

Supernova wrote:And why is it mandatory as a child?

Because kids pretty much have to do what their parents tell them.

Which is why I was baptized at the age of 12, the age a kid supposedly can make an informed decision. You think I would tell my folks that I had doubts about all their hocus-pocus?

So, my soul was saved, I was in the Baptist Church. It was just a couple years more that I started skipping Sunday School and became a heathen.

Alan Smithee wrote:This horse is coughing up blood. Please stop beating it.

Artemis wrote:Its part of a sacrament. From my (not so good) memory, confession & Holy Communion are participated inconjunction.

I recall going to confession as a child, roughly once a year. Once I figured out that I didn't have to launch into a confession, sometimes the priest & I just chatted.'

But you didn't answer: if you say I don't know, how do you know that they thrive on it?

wants2laugh wrote:That is because you do not understand the sacrament of confession/reconciliation. It is called reconciliation because you are asking for forgiveness from God and reconciling your relationship with him. It is supposed to be a weekly thing, as you are not supposed to accept the sacrament of communion without first being granted forgiveness for your sins. When someone pleads guilty in court, they must allocute the actions of their crime. It is the same thing. When you verbally express your sins and ask for forgiveness, you are then taking responsibility for the things that you have done wrong.

Whether YOU believe this is the way it should be or not, this IS the way it is for catholics. If you don't believe it, then never become a catholic.

Supernova wrote:and yet somehow I don't think I'm any lesser to get to Heaven than those who do.

Supernova wrote:I've never been to a church of any kind in my life, never confessed anything to any clergyman, and yet somehow I don't think I'm any lesser to get to Heaven than those who do.