A confession is a statement that usually includes information previously unknown to the listener.
Confession is a term that comes from the Latin confessĭo . It is the statement that a person makes, either spontaneously or when asked by another subject. The confession usually includes data hitherto unknown to the listener.
For example: "The singer's confession about his sexuality surprised millions of fans" , "When he heard his wife's confession, Ramiro thought he was going to faint" , "I don't want to lie anymore, it's time for the confession: I'm going to call Agustina on the phone to tell her what happened in that house .
Confession in law
At the level of law , the confession is a personal statement by the inmate or litigant before the judge within the framework of a trial .
"After four hours of investigations, the detainee broke down and made the most anticipated confession, informing where the victim's body was located."y "The confession did not take long to arrive and the Justice ordered the immediate imprisonment of the offender" son expresiones que muestran este uso.
In Catholicism, confession is part of the sacrament of reconciliation or penance.
The concept in the Catholic Church
For the Catholic Church , confession is a part of the sacrament of penance or reconciliation , which consists of the declaration of sins committed before a priest. Through this sacrament, believers receive God 's forgiveness for said sins .
In this sense, it must also be emphasized that the aforementioned religious must comply with what is known as the secret of confession . Specifically, what is established with him is that he cannot reveal, under any circumstances, what a faithful person has revealed to him during his sacramental confession.
Such is the importance of this maxim that even in canon law it is established that the priest who uses this information and reveals it must submit to the consequences. That is, he will have to accept that he has been directly excommunicated.
In many cases, the fact has arisen that a priest has known who has committed a crime, because the offender has communicated this to him, but has not been able to make his identity known because he was subject to the secrecy of confession.
To receive divine forgiveness, Christians must go through four stages: repentance (the intention not to commit the sin again), confession (the verbal enumeration of sins before the priest who acts as confessor), satisfaction or penance. (the actions ordered by the priest as reparation for sins) and absolution (decreed by the priest in the name of God).
The idea of confession in cinema
In addition to all of the above, we cannot ignore that in the field of culture there are certain works that make use of the word that concerns us now in their titles. Thus, for example, we find the film "Confession" , which was released in 1940 by director Luis José Moglia . In it we are told about the life of a group of musicians and how one of them falls madly in love with a woman whose only dream is to succeed.
In the same way, we also find the film titled "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." In 2002, the one that brings us closer to the life of Chuck Barris , who worked as a producer and as a CIA agent, came to the big screen.