Vatican newspaper denounces reporter who posed as penitent for expose

As St. Padre Pio wisely related, the newspaper is "the gospel of Satan".

Do you have a link? Because if you do, I'm going to mount that on a wall.

Please send me the link too.

Deliberate misuse of a sacrament = sacrilege. Confessing fake sins falls into exactly the same category as a penitent who goes to confession without a firm purpose of amendment simply to have the "slate wiped clean" so that the same sins can then be committed again.

Not only does it invalidate the sacrament it also incurs an additional sin; sacrilege.

It would have been possible to obtain the same information simply by talking to the priests outside the confessional and asking them questions about "hypotheticals" such as is done in moral theology classes, for instance. Of course, that would not have attracted the attention that a stunt like this does for it panders to the curiosity that many people have for what occurs inside a confessional.

I'm just repeating what you wrote because it bears repeating! Very well stated.

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