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To: ebb tide
From the article: At the same time, "there is no human situation absolutely without hope or solution," he said Catholics profess their belief in the forgiveness of sins in the Creed, he explained. "That means that for one who converts, forgiveness is possible. If that's true for a murderer, it is also true for an adulterer."

The murderer has to stop murdering so doesn't that mean the adulterer has to stop... adultering? How can someone who continues in adultery be said to have converted?

The hope or solution for human situations that are sinful are for the humans to stop sinning. How is this confusing to a cardinal of the Roman Church?!

3 posted on 02/28/2014 3:59:20 PM PST by Legatus (Keep calm and carry on)
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To: Legatus
How is this confusing to a cardinal of the Roman Church?!

Just think, this same cardinal voted in the last election of a pope. Do you think he's getting his kick-back, manyfold?

4 posted on 02/28/2014 4:03:28 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: Legatus
The hope or solution for human situations that are sinful are for the humans to stop sinning. How is this confusing to a cardinal of the Roman Church?!

And Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and all the other abortion supporting Catholic politicians continue to receive communion, without a peep of objection from the Church.

5 posted on 02/28/2014 4:11:51 PM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: Legatus

I thought about this too— the contrast between a remarriage and murder.

I see that Matrimony is one of only seven Holy Sacraments, as is, The Holy Order of the Priesthood. (Once a priest, always a priest, for good or ill.) Insoluble, period, in the Catholic Church.

Death, or murder, and even Life, are different from a sacrament, and are not an act of the Church, or performed by the priesthood.


14 posted on 02/28/2014 7:25:59 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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