1st & 3rd Meeting of Oshkosh

01/12/2026

1. Every priest regularly hears this sin confessed. He will not be shocked at all.

2. If you intentionally viewed po*******hy in any form, you must confess that you viewed po*******hy and how many times. If po*******hy was accompanied by ma********on, you must confess that, too, along with the number of times (to the best of your memory).

3.. "I keep confessing this over and over again." The Church requires for confession a sincere contrition for sins committed, a desire to sin no more, and a firm purpose of amendment of one’s life. Po*******hy is a sin that people confess repeatedly, and that can be discouraging. However, it is important not to despair and to keep going to confession. On a Catholic Answers Live call, a man who struggled with po*******hy and mentioned it in all of his confessions at the time spoke with Matt Fradd, who said,

"In order to have the contrition needed for absolution, we do not need to twist our mind in such a way that we are convinced we will never fall again. We can confess that we have fallen to something, and so long as our will desires never to fall to it again, even though we may recognize that we likely will fall to it again, it is still a valid confession, and you are forgiven."
(https://www.catholic.com/video/ive-confessed-this-1000-times)

4. One temptation for those who fall once is thinking, “I fell and I cannot get to confession for several days. I might as well do it again before I go to confession.” One problem with this, among others, is that it can easily turn into presumption of God’s mercy. If this temptation is given into, it should also be mentioned in confession.

5. Although confession grants forgiveness of sins, confession alone is often not enough for someone with a habit to overcome po*******hy use. To make progress, it needs to be discussed with loved ones and possibly a therapist. The seal of confession is a gift, but if the person who has developed a habit of viewing po*******hy talks about it only in confession, the habit can remain a secret; and the sin of po*******hy thrives in shame and secrecy.

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