This article relates to the practice of the confession in the
Christian Faith. For the other directions of the word
confession, to consult Confession (homonymy) In the Churches
Anglican, catholic and orthodoxe In this direction, the
confession is a Sacrement for the Churches Anglican E,
Catholique, orthodoxe, Swedish and old Eastern. It is individual
and private. To his exit, the priest grants or not the
discharge, i.e. the forgiveness and the handing-over of the
Péché S of the Fidèle. This capacity is conferred to him under
the terms of the apostolic Succession. The priest is held with
the secrecy for all that was revealed to him during the
confession. He has direction only accompanied by repentance.
More precisely, the confession of the sins is one of the three
stages of the Sacrement of penitence and reconciliation: The
“auricular” confession, i.e. made with the ear of a clerk, does
not exist in the Protestantisme, the Reformers not finding there
a base biblical. But in its Small Catechism , Luther made co