I always thought the mortal sin of abortion could be forgiven in the confessional. I did not know it couldn’t be until now.
Certainly, the Catholic Church has always preached that forgiveness is available to women (and men) involved in abortion. How is this a change?
I don’t want to go into too much detail....but technically it was a reserved sin that only a bishop can forgive. But over the years its been ignored and priests just did it anyway
See above posts (daniel1212) by the grace of God. Some Catholics do not know (or care) what Scripture says, and some are even ignorant of what their (heretical ) church teaches.