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Originally Posted by RUmooningme
I am not Roman Catholic but have studied comparitive religions for over thirty years and it may have been a way for Charlie to clear his guilt, but it was not a "confession" that would have any absolutoin power. A Roman confession has to be to a preist who has been given permission from a local Bishop to forgive sins.
Even a preist who is on vacation in France who is normally in Chicago can not simply fill in and hear confession while in Paris.
I'm not pulling your leg.
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make senses ^^ and I am sure you are technically correct. Even if Charlie's confession holds no power towards saving his immortal soul I still think it is a symbolic and perhaps unconscience act of Charlie preparing for death.
And on a more philosophical point who's to say the Catholic church has it right? I would think confessing to your victim would rate more points with the big Guy than telling a 3rd party priest with no connection to the sin commited. And if Charlie is actively preparing for death maybe he feels the same way.