How do you resolve the contradiction of Catholic Priests abusing Children or being a partner in a Homosexual Relationship while at the same time celebrating the Holy Mass.
Good enough for the priests , good enough for the Divorced people. If these evil priests are forgiven, so should the divorced People?
-— How do you resolve the contradiction of Catholic Priests abusing Children or being a partner in a Homosexual Relationship while at the same time celebrating the Holy Mass.
Good enough for the priests, good enough for the Divorced people. If these evil priests are forgiven, so should the divorced People? -—
The denial of Communion is a public, ecclesiastical form of discipline for those who are in a public, objective state of mortal sin, or ‘scandal.’
If a priest is a known, unrepentant pedophile, he would certainly fall into that category. He would also be defrocked, presumably.
I forgot to mention that any Catholic who perceives himself to have committed a mortal sin, “a sin that leads to death,” is obligated to abstain from Communion, if the sin has not been confessed and the penitent absolved.