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Vivian Green (A New History of Christianity) says that parish priests in medieval times could charge 'dues' at weddings, the churching of women (after childbirth), at confessions and funerals. The Catholic Church does not now charge fees or dues for hearing confessions.
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No. The Sacrament of Confession, as with all of the Sacraments, in the Catholic Church is freely administered.
. Catholic Answer The Catholic Church does not now, and never has due to the fact that any "fee" for a sacrament, such as hearing confessions is a very grevious sin, it is called the sin of simony and is a violation of divine law and is covered in Canon Law, under canon 1380 (as regards the sacraments):
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from Code of Canon Law, translation prepared under the auspices of the Canon Law Society of America, Nihil obstat: + Anthony J. Bevilacqua, J.C.D.; Imprimatur: Rev. Msgr. John F. Donoghue, Canon Law Society of America, Washington D.C.
Canon 1380 - One who celebrates or receives a sacrament through simony is to be punished with an interdict or a suspension.
from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980
Simony. A sacrilege that consists in buying and selling what is spiritual in return for what is temporal. In simony the person tries to equate material things, such as money, with spiritual things, such as divine grace, and treats the latter as though he or some other human being had full ownership of what really belongs to God. The term "simony" originated with the Biblical account of Simon Magus, who sought to purchase from St. Peter the spiritual power derived from the imposition of hands and the invocation of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:18). Simony includes both agreements that are illicit by divine law and those which the law of the Church forbids as greater protection and reverence for spiritual goods. Thus to promise prayers only in exchange for a certain sum of money is simony forbidden by divine (natural) law. To confer sacred orders or obtain some position of authority in the church in return for money or its equivalent is simony forbidden by ecclesiastical law. When simony is against the divine law, it is always a grave sin. Its gravity in other cases depends on the serious nature of what is bought of sold and the degree of scandal given. (Etym. Latin simonia, after Simon Magus.)
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