Confession, Penance, and the Priesthood
Rome teaches that sins committed after baptism are ordinarily forgiven through confession to a priest who absolves in Christ's name, but Scripture sends every sinner directly to God through Christ, the one Mediator and great High Priest.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What the sacrament of Penance is, and what Rome says it requires: contrition, confession to a priest, absolution, and satisfaction
How Catholics read John 20:23, and how Luke and Acts show the apostles using that commission
What Rome means by the ministerial priesthood, and why the New Testament gives Christ's churches elders, not priests
Why every believer may confess his sins directly to God through Christ and rest in a forgiveness that is complete