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Th Inner Life – September 03, 2024 – Confession

Patrick Conleyby Patrick Conley

Father Eric Nielsen joins Patrick to discuss Confession

  • (4:31) – Why do we need to go to confession?
  • Teresa – I went to confession when I was 21, I have been dating my husband to be. The second time he said I recognize your voice and couldn’t forgive you again. And we break away from the Catholic Church. I commend that priest for sending me straight. More priest should be like him.

(25:16) Break 1

  • Maria – Do you have to be a baptized Catholic to receive the sacrament of confession? Or can you be any baptized Christian?
  • (29:30) James – Why don’t we do everything in the rubric that the sacrament requires now days? Readings psalms and other prep work with we forgo. If we did it would take like 15 min to do each person.

(37:07) Break 2

  • Cindy – My mother in late stages of dementia. What happens if she does have sins but doesn’t remember?
  • ( 40:38) Barbara – My son went to confession after 14 years, felt like a new person
  • Mercedes – I usually go to confession every month or every two weeks, I like to write my sins and bring them with me so I don’t forget.
  • Rick – Does the contrition prayer in the evening counts for confession?
  • Clair – Turning 30 next year, I really woke up to everything for how I have been living for so long. I was baptized Catholic; I was not confirmed. I haven’t been to church in a long tie. I am not sure how to get back to church on my own.

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Patrick Conley

Patrick Conley

Patrick Conley was born, raised, and baptized in Wisconsin in a Protestant tradition. After meeting his wife, Kendra, through an Evangelical ministry at the University of Minnesota, they entered the Catholic Church in 2010. They listened to Relevant Radio, specifically The Inner Life, while preparing to enter the Church. Conley now holds a degree in theology from Oxford University and has served the Church in both academic theology and grassroots pastoral ministry. Conley teaches religion classes in a Catholic elementary school, serves as his parish Director of Religious Education, and is in formation for the permanent diaconate. He also hosts Practicing Catholic on Relevant Radio, exclusive to the Minneapolis area’s airwaves, and is a traveling presenter for the Catherine of Siena Institute apostolate. He lives in rural Wisconsin with his wife and their bulldogs, Georgie and Bingley.