Posted on 11/21/2016 5:47:17 PM PST by marshmallow
The President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation said this during his presentation of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter “Misericordia et Misera”. “I don’t see why granting the faculty of absolution to priests, who are ministers of reconciliation, should give cause for any concern”. The archbishop announced that over 21 million visited Rome for the Jubilee and thanked the institutions but not the mayor of Rome
The Pope’s decision to make the ability of priests to absolve the “grave sin” of abortion permanent, means Canon Law is to be updated too. Francis had granted priests this power as an exception during the Jubilee Year. The man in charge of co-ordinating the Holy Year of Mercy, Mgr. Rino Fisichella, explained this in his presentation of the pastoral letter “Misericordia et Misera”, with which Francis concluded the Jubilee that ran from 8 December 2015 to 20 November 2016.
“Canon Law currently stipulates that absolution for the sin of abortion is a faculty that lies with the bishop of the diocese concerned and in some instances, the bishop may delegate some or all priests in his diocese to absolve this sin,” explained the President of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation. “During the Jubilee, Pope Francis had granted all priests the power to absolve this sin, as a concrete sign that God’s mercy is boundless. Therefore, even people who commit this sin – which the Pope reiterates, is extremely grave – will have no trouble obtaining God’s forgiveness if they are repentant. Canon Law is a body of laws and whenever the Pope introduces a measure that alters the dictates of the law, the article that specific measure concerns, necessarily needs to be changed”. More specifically, Fisichella explained, responding to journalists questions, “a latae sententiae excommunication is revoked”. The provision, Fisichella added, does.....
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Currently, does the church require that a bishop rather than a priest offer forgiveness for murder of adults as well?
No. Excommunication is generally reserved for sins that the church finds particularly heinous, but secular society ignores or condones. Grave wrongs that are agreed to be grave wrongs by the vast majority of sensible people don’t require the church to impose special penalties.
Interesting. Thanks.
Not a Catholic here, but I have a bad feeling about this.
I wonder how many popes are in Hell?
“Most” is a safe guess.
I don’t think that Canon Law will change.
Don’t. There are many women who regret their actions and will never do it again. I believe I read that women who abort have the same percentage rate in developing PTSD as in other traumas, about 25-30%. Suicide among them is not uncommon.
Biblically, God forgave the king of Judah, Manasseh, who sacrificed his child, when he repented while in prison in Babylon because he realized that the God of his fathers is the only true God and God also gave him back his kingdom. Manasseh destroyed all the altars and stopped the national practice. However, God did not forgive the NATION of Judah.
“However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple (house) of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
“Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT FORGIVE.” (All caps mine) 2 Kings 23:26 & 27 and 24:3 & 4
God told the Israelites that the reason they were being given the promised land was because the natives were evil and even practicing child sacrifice. If the Israelites followed the same evils, their land would be lost. They did and eventually they were invaded and conquered by the Babylonians.
I haven’t done a historical study, but the nations that I know of that practiced human sacrifice didn’t fair well. Native Americans also practiced human sacrifice.
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