To: markomalley
Currently, the Catholic Church permits only men to be ordained as deacons. Deacons can preach and preside at baptisms, funerals and weddings, but may not celebrate Mass or hear confessions.Not true. Deacons may indeed hear confessions. They just can't give absolution.
2 posted on
10/06/2015 1:49:43 PM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(Step away from the Koolade.)
To: Jeff Chandler
4 posted on
10/06/2015 1:50:32 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("There will be no conservative issue islands left to stand on if the red tide comes in."~S. Knish)
To: Jeff Chandler
I didn’t know that. Is there something in the catechism about it? And who would want to confess to a Deacon and not get absolution? Isn’t that the whole point? As in persona Christi?
5 posted on
10/06/2015 1:52:34 PM PDT by
Mercat
(You don't recommend better diet and exercise for a shark bite.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Then it really isn’t the sacrament of confession is it? It isn’t confession without absolution. I could hear anyone’s confession but that doesn’t make it a sacramental confession.
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