I agree, mm. Of course God isn’t going to damn a child because of a priest. The problem is the child, being taught from the beginning that that priest can retain or remit that child’s sins, is bound and chained to that priest and the Church for his salvation. (He THINKS, because that’s what he’s been taught). THAT’S what is sickening, to me. Pray for those children to have their eyes opened and to see the truth of God’s Word. That their salvation depends on no man or institution, but on the finished work of Christ. And that alone.
“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ “