[ebb tide]

What good is the Sacrament of Confession to the divorced and remarried, if they continue to fornicate?

[defconw]

None. But I read that you thought Pope Francis was committing adultery. I apologize if I misunderstood.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That sin's on them, then: an intentionally invalid Confession, without a genuine firm purpose of amendment, is one more sin on top of sin.

I often think of that.

But unless the priest is keeping people under bedroom surveillance -- drones at the window, maybe? --- he has no idea whether they are living in sexual continence, as brother and sister, as they ought to do if they are not validly married.

He can tell them but -- like I said --- if they intend to keep on sinning, that's on them.

And of course, that goes for all of us.

[Mrs. Don-o]

From #8 --- what can you possibly mean by asking: Is Francis living in continuous state of adultery which is a state of mortal sin?

The answer's no.

Unless your private surveillance drone caught him in flagrante delicto with --- oh, I don't know --- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at Casa Sancta Martae?

Unlikely, to say the least.