If I die before I can confess my sins, can I just confess them to God in Heaven?
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Catholic teaching states that you must make a sincere effort to confess all mortal sins in the sacrament of confession. It is often encouraged that all grave sins be confessed as soon as possible, and certainly all mortal sins. However, if the sinner is unable to confess before death, the effortful intent to confess is taught to be valid, provided it is a sincere and effortful intent!
It is also the Catholic Church's teaching God normally works through the sacraments of the Church, but that God is not at all inhibited from working outside them.
And as an important side-note, if the recipient of confession is not sincere, even in making an act of confession, the confession is not valid.
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