In my 42d blog, "Godless Nation", I stated that abortion was a direct afront against God, because "man" has taken upon himself to decide who lives or dies, which formerly was the sole province of God. 

Now, let's discuss another afront against God, "Confession".

According to the tenets of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" , the "Sacrement of Penance" is the way in which its members confess their sins and are ABSOLVED of those sins by a priest!

 In essence, the priest has taken the place of the sacrificial "goat", used in ancient times by the Hebrews, to take on the sins of the muktitude.

 In believing that those sins "confessed" to him are now his and he has a sacred vow not to profess the sins, he's accepted to anyone, it becomes a  ridiculous and horrendous load that he must bare, that is of no value to anyone!

So now the priest has assumed the role of Jesus, who, in HIs sacrifice, took on ALL the sins of "man", and as a result, we are sinless.. as you know, justified of our sins, by the grace of God, as taught by Paul.

 It is ridiculous and  a travesty against God and  "man", that a mere mortal in "costume", can assume he has the ability to absolve anyone of their sins.

In defense of the priest,  I'm certain that he believes that he's doing the work that God intended.  

I'm even more certain that this tenet was inserted  by the Adversary to deliberately belittle the act of crucifixion by our Lord, because Jesus would not accept his dominium over him in the wilderness..paulnbob