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A confessional is a box, cabinet, booth, or stall where the priest in some Christian churches sits to hear the confessions of penitents. It is the typical venue for the sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Churches, [1][2] but similar structures are also used in Anglican churches of an Anglo-Catholic orientation.
Mar 7, 2014 · Enter the confessional booth, a.k.a. the dark box, a piece of furniture designed by Cardinal Charles Borromeo, with a grille and curtain to separate the priest from the penitent. “The box was...
Mar 24, 2014 · The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession reveals the "massive collapse" in Catholics attending confession. Cornwell tells us that confession is "so poorly attended in recent years that in...
- John Cornwell
May 15, 2019 · The Church has observed the “ seal of the confessional ” — the privacy and secrecy between confessor and penitent — since the time of the Fathers. The earliest Christian documents suggest that confession was a public event, at least for public sins.
Confessional, in Roman Catholic churches, box cabinet or stall in which the priest sits to hear the confessions of penitents. The confessional is usually a wooden structure with a compartment (entered through a door or curtain) in which the priest sits and, on one or both sides, another compartment.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Although it is not mandatory, the Catholic rite is traditionally conducted within a confessional box or booth. This sacrament is known by many names, including penance, reconciliation and confession. While official Church publications always refer to the sacrament as "Penance", "Reconciliation" or "Penance and Reconciliation".
A confessional in India . Temporary confessional booths set up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during Pope Francis’s visit in 2013 . Bringing in the Inquisition. Another approach to contain the sexual crisis was legal. The Counter-Reformation Church began to sue priests who exploited confession to make sexual advances.
