How about being a conservative?
That’s stupid. The Lord forgives our sins when we bring them to Him. (Catholic here).
I dare say it is not up to them or to the Pope.
It sure would have been nice if he could have mentioned abortion once during his visit to Washington, instead of going on and on about “carbon dioxide pollution.”
If there’s anything unforgivable, it’s abortion.
Just an observation but I’d think that power is reserved for someone in a higher plane.
Out of your jurisdiction, Pal.
I thought Jesus forgives sin? This confuses me. I’m serious.
I guess that murder is kinda’ sorta’ almost ok with this religious jackass . . . Well, we really don’t want to offend the people who’ve murdered their unborns . . . that would be controversial, and we do want to kinda’ be like the Methodists, don’t we?
I didn’t know that priests had the power to forgive any sin.
I’m sure women who have had an abortion are just running to the confessional. The pope’s concept is dumb.
Francis the talking poop needs to go to confession for life, he is the false prophet and will dealt with by God...
Keep the faith fellow Catholics...God will take care of us if we pray and are diligent to Him...
I always thought the mortal sin of abortion could be forgiven in the confessional. I did not know it couldn’t be until now.
Certainly, the Catholic Church has always preached that forgiveness is available to women (and men) involved in abortion. How is this a change?
The pope cannot forgive and neither can priests and neither can the pope confer this on priests. This is sheer lunacy. Want forgivness? Ask God. It’s that simple. You don’t need a middle man and besides, they don’t have any power to act on God’s behalf.
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While he’s at it, he can extend his right to a beach front home on the shore of the Lake of Fire to all of them.
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The pope is an idiot.
Abortion is premeditated MURDER.
MURDER is one of the very worst sins that can be committed.
Francis should just hand out keys to heaven and shortcut the penance part.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. (1 John 1:8-10)
NOWHERE does the Bible show that the meaning of 'Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained" (John 20:23) and "Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matthew 18:18) - and which is illustrated in cases of church discipline, and in which all the church is involved (1Co. 5:1-5; 2Co. 2:1-10) and special cases of intercession (Ja. 5:14,15) - is that this means believers must regularly go the the pastors (and never to a distinctively titled priests ) to be forgiven.
The ONLY place where believers are told to engage in a practice of regularly confessing sins is toward each other, and holy believers of Elijah-type fervent faith are provided the binding and loosing power, which Elijah showed in binding the heavens from raining, and loosing them.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. (James 5:16-20)
Thus the pope and those who presume otherwise need to be forgiven.
Catholic ping!