[sinkspur]

Oh but it is possible to make such a declaration. Absolutely possible and utterly responsible for a pastor to do so.

Well, you and I disagree on this. No pastor should presume to declare someone in mortal sin when even the Church itself is not willing to go that far.

[Siobhan]

No pastor should presume to declare someone in mortal sin when even the Church itself [sic] is not willing to go that far.

The Church herself entrusts her priests with just such faculties to make just such admonitions to their cures.