Well, the apostles were bishops and they ordained priests, that's what bishops do, they ordain priests, the visible hierarchy of the true Church. Christ instituted the sacrament of confession so that man can renew the grace he received in baptism in case he has committed a mortal sin, that is, a sin which brings death to the soul, like lust or willful murder. Confession is an amazing, incredible, beautiful gift. When I go to confession, I have the absolute certitude that my sins are forgiven by God because I have made a good confession, and the priest will affirm that by either denying or giving me absolution. The priest is another persona Christi if you will, given the power to bind and loose as Christ gave to the bishops and priests of the Church in the gospel of Matthew 16:18, and again I think in chapter 18, I would have to look it up, but even quoting scripture doesn't matter because the church always had this sacrament before scripture was codified in the early 5th century. What I honestly don't understand is why people think they can just ask God to forgive them and claim he does, you have no absolute way of knowing whether or not God has forgiven you, that is why God gave the church the sacrament of Confession, so that we have moral certitude we are in a state of grace, as Catholics call it. The state of grace is that you have the supernatural life of grace in your soul, the indwelling of the Holy Trinity in your soul, when you commit a mortal sin, such as lust, murder, worshiping false gods, you drive out the indwelling of the Trinity and God cannot reside anywhere supernaturally that is openly living in a sin which is entirely opposed to Him, that is why if we repent for our sins and go to confession and are given absolution, we can have that supernatural grace once again that we may have lost after baptism or committing a mortal sin.
what about being infilled with the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues, laying on of hands, healing, ect...do you believe in any of that? I guess i could consider myself penocostal/apostolic.
Those are all gifts of the Holy Ghost, but mindless babble that people call tongues these days are not from God. The traditional understanding of tongues is that super natural grace that each hears the preaching of a certain saint in their own language even though that saint may be speaking in a language that is their own and not indigenous to that place, but God supplies a miracle of grace for the listener to understand through that person the words of the saint preaching. All this mindless, silly rolling of tongues and incoherent babbling is not the work of God that occurs in most Protestant sects, and it is very scary that people believe it is from God. Any simple research of the history of speaking in tongues from the saints will entirely debunk that. I believe in the gifts of healing, but healing in the sense that is from God. God does not allow a previous ailment to return once that person has been healed of that ailment, that is a true miracle of healing. These days the devil is deceiving people greatly through Protestant sects with faux gifts of healing by curing someone for a short time then letting the ailment return, that is not true healing, the devil does that for show and hysteria and to deceive people that these false prophets are true ones, which is obviously not the case. True healing is done by saints, living, or in heaven.

I guess i could consider myself penocostal/apostolic. I attend a church where we teach biblical truth and nothing else, we follow closely the practices of Christ and the apostles, we believe in the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues, we believe the name of God is Jesus. what are your thoughts on this? am i going to hell because im not catholic?
Well, I will be honest with you, you are in a false religion. Protestantism is exactly that, a protest against the Catholic Church, and was created by Martin Luther in the 1500's and spawned into 35,000 different sects. You say you attend a church that teaches biblical truth, but what is biblical truth? Biblical truth is not anyone's or any pastor's personal interpretation of scripture, you have to ask yourself, why are the Pentecostals right and not the Catholics, Baptists, Church of Christ, Lutherans, etc. ad nauseam. The answer is obvious, they are not right, there is only one true church, it is the church that was founded by Jesus Christ on the rock of St. Peter and his successors (Matt 16:18-19). Christ gave St. Peter and his successors the keys to the kingdom of heaven, not pastor jim or pastor bob, or elder bubba. Unfortunately, your church does not follow closely the practices of Christ and the apostles because it does not have all the sacraments that they practiced or administered, history affirms this, it is very easy to look it up in any non-liberal historical work. It is amazing how quickly people are willing to pick and choose arguments instead of embracing what is obvious, just like I said before, the Catholic Church gave you the canon of scripture, so you are already affirming a Catholic belief by accepting that scripture as from God. Well who decided that the canon of scripture you read is from God? It was the Catholic Church, not the Pentecostals or Baptists or Lutherans.

Ask yourself, are the Pentecostals the true churh of Jesus Christ? Can I study the writings of the early church fathers and saints and will they say that the one true church is the Pentecostal church, absolutely, unequivocally not. You must look at Christianity outside of what you may be used to to understand where I am going with this. Historical context and tradition is vitally important to understand Christianity because tradition points to the Catholic Church and the priesthood, which all the apostles were, priests, who said the mass, heard confessions, did the same thing that Catholics do today, and will continue to do until the end of time. Please do not mistake me to be condescending or rash in my arguments, but I am simply speaking the truth about Protesantism, which is hard to hear for some people because it means embracing the Cross of Christ in a way they are unfamiliar with or uncomfortable with, but Christ Himself said it must be so and that they would persecute you for it.

am i going to hell because im not catholic?
Well, now that you know the Catholic Church is the true church, and I urge you to really, honestly, and prayerfully study all the things I have mentioned, especially those saints I mentioned in my previous post. Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (outside the church, there is no salvation). In order to be saved one must profess and believe the true faith, and there is only one. Unam Sanctam Catholicam et Apostolicam Ecclesiam. Or in other words, yes, now that you know.

Gloria Patri Et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,

Malcolm