Charges like this make one doubt the good faith of professional anti-Catholics. And he that is ashamed to make known his weakness, encourage him so that he will not hide it from you. And when he has revealed it to you, do not make it public. These men, writing as much as a thousand years before the Lateran Council of 1215, were referring to a practice that already was old and well-established. Clearly, no priest could forgive sins on Christ's behalf unless he was first told the sins by the penitent.
Auricular confession is implied in the very institution of the sacrament.
Mass. They don't. What they worship is Christ who has become present, including his divine nature, under the appearances of bread and wine. If Catholics are right about that then the host deserves to be worshipped since it really is God. A pope would be perfectly correct in decreeing that the host should be worshipped, just as he would be right to say Jesus should be worshipped if he walked into the room. Boettner should direct his complaint not at some non-existent worship of ordinary bread, but at what Catholics think that bread becomes.