The mafia? Time to go to confession! jk Already did a long time ago.
I can answer the question. Nope. You can’t live in grave sin and be a good Christian.
I knew gangsters who would laugh about kicking an old man down the stairs of his own house after robbing him, and worse.
then they’d go to church on Sunday.
I wasn’t as bad as then and never physically harmed anyone but I lived in grave sin and it is not compatible with God.
I never gave God a thought in the midst of this period in my life.
How can you and keep doing what you’re doing, if it’s wrong?
You can’t.
No room or God when you’re committed to evil.
I found my way back to God when I stopped doing wrong.
It is what it is.
Then you agree with Bishp Burke and the majority of Chrstians and Catholics.
The heresy here was not limited to Catholics, but pushed in many liberal protestant seminaries.... the idea if you had a commitment to Christ then your sins did not count. Come to think of it, Paul ran into people who claimed this and corrected them. So it is not new.