Author Topic: Confessions and the NO (Read 1748 times)

love alabama · « **on:** August 22, 2011, 06:46:57 PM »

What is the Novus Ordo mentality on Confession?

Arborman · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2011, 06:51:59 PM »

Same as the traditionalists, but traditionalists are more likely to use the sacrament.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2011, 07:13:54 PM »

Quote from: love alabama

What is the Novus Ordo mentality on Confession?

They like face to face confessions.

Some of them confessors probably try to use therapists' techniques.

They generally don't follow Catholic moral theology.

There are some who did, but most of those are dead.

Arborman · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2011, 07:23:00 PM »

The NO confessions I went to were stuck to church teaching, and some of the Priests were very tough on me.

You have the option of going behind the screen or confessing face to face. I admit I much prefer the face to face and I get nervous before going into the box at my SSPX chapel.

Sigismund · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2011, 08:24:37 PM »

I have generally had good experiences in confession, whether NO, FSSP, or Eastern Rite. I have received bad advice, or at least advice I thought was bad. However, I have never had occasion to question the validity of the absolution I received, nor have I ever been told that it was okay to violate any Church teaching. I am as selective as I can be about confessors, however, and I have a pretty good group to choose from. Not everyone is so fortunate.