So, if I’m dying on the battlefield, I should reject the sacraments because I know the priest serving me has sins on his conscience? I should damn my soul because the priest is bad? No thank you. And St. Augustine is good enough for me.
So, if I’m dying on the battlefield, I should reject the sacraments because I know the priest serving me has sins on his conscience?
First of all, if you’re dying on a battlefield, you’d be receiving Extreme Unction, not Communion...
Secondly, I said nothing about a priest having sins on his conscience...I know it’s tough, but try and read that to which you are responding...I stated that for a Eucharist to be valid, the intention of the confecting priest must actually be to confect the proper matter with the proper form of prayer...a priest who has many sins on his conscience can still confect the eucharist as long as he rightfully intends to so do...
I’m surprised a Catholic wouldn’t know this...