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Unfair analysis. That's why I'm going to bring up Teddy Kennedy. Confession, Catholic-style, obviously cannot help with a guy like that. Protestant-style wouldn't work either.

I'd suspect a one-way trip to "Outer Darkness" is in his future, confession or not eh?!

Unfair analysis. That's why I'm going to bring up Teddy Kennedy. Confession, Catholic-style, obviously cannot help with a guy like that. Protestant-style wouldn't work either. I'd suspect a one-way trip to "Outer Darkness" is in his future, confession or not eh?!

Hey, I won't argue a Ted Kennedy with you there. When I talk about the differences between us, it's not to put Catholicism on a pedestal and to put Protestantism in the toilet. Having the Sacrament of Confession does not make a Catholic more impeccable of character. If that were true, then we wouldn't actually need the confessionals after awhile! However, it allows Catholics a more legitimate means of forgiveness.

My issue with Protestantism is that when you get down to YOPIOS, basically that opens the door to relativism, no matter how well meaning or slight. Catholics believe in revelatory truth, meaning it is decided by God, and unchangeable. When you allow your own personal interpretation to creep in, it becomes very easy to argue away a certain sinful behavior by saying Jesus didn't really teach it was a sin. A guy like Ted Kennedy does just that. He thinks that he can be a good Catholic (and get all the Catholic votes) and still be pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage. The thing is, whether he thinks so or not is irrelevant. God has deemed otherwise.