[Mrs. Don-o]

"Sent to hell for eternity if the priest retains their sins."

Metmom, we've been knowing each other for a long time, and it saddens me that you would say such a thing. This is no way a Catholic teaching, in theory or in practice.

Why would you invent ---or, a more charitable supposition, repeat --- such bizarre things without checking whether they are true or false?

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

Mrs. Don-o,

there is no other poster on here that I have more respect for than you. I admire your intellect and Christian patience.
you have read MM for a long time, as well as I.
did you seriously expect her to correctly state doctrine correctly?
we all know the agenda, don’t we?
let’s get real!

[metmom]

Metmom, we've been knowing each other for a long time, and it saddens me that you would say such a thing. This is no way a Catholic teaching, in theory or in practice. Why would you invent ---or, a more charitable supposition, repeat --- such bizarre things without checking whether they are true or false?

Invent?No.

Repeat? Who's to blame for it happening?

Should you put your collective heads in the sand about what your own church is doing?

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/sex-abuse-and-international-secrecy-imposed-by-the-vatican/5505698

Sex abuse and international secrecy imposed by the Vatican

For 80 years, the Catholic Church did more than discourage the reporting of child sexual abuse, it enforced a policy of strict and absolute secrecy, punishable by excommunication. Noel Debien and Tiger Webb report on ‘crimen sollicitationis’, a papal decree with direct practical effects long after it was repealed.

I am pinging some others as they may recall the FR thread that was on that topic better than I can. It was some years ago.