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To: Gamecock
I began my Catholic journey in a little country town in northern California in the U.S.A. The town was so small that we did not have Mass every Sunday, but a priest used to come once a month if he possibly could to hold Mass in a big public hall.

With the catholic belief you can lose your salvation for mortal sins, and enough venial sins, what happens to the individual who committs enough of these, or whatever the requirement is, and that individual dies before the priest makes it around.

Does this individual go to Heaven or Hell? Catholic teaching says one has lost salvation if committing these sins without confession and forgiveness of the priest.

Heaven or Hell....what say you?

32 posted on 11/18/2014 9:38:31 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Not enough information.

Does the person trust Christ alone for his salvation?


33 posted on 11/18/2014 9:48:13 AM PST by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: ealgeone; Gamecock
Does this individual go to Heaven or Hell? Catholic teaching says one has lost salvation if committing these sins without confession and forgiveness of the priest.

What Rome officially says versus what she effectually conveys - which evidences what she really believes - are two different things.

By treating even proabortion, prosodomite, promuslim pols and supporters as members in life and in death, she shows what she really believes in part, (Ja. 2:18) and the laity, who look to for the meaning of what is preached by how the preachers translate it into action, get the message. As "the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led,, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," (VEHEMENTER NOS) so it seems most follow their overall interpretation.

Trad. RCs end up being somewhat akin to Protest-ants in dissenting from this, as they engage in interpreting teachings (in their case printed church teaching, often ancient) different than Rome most manifestly does in modern tradition, and thus are a sect.

45 posted on 11/18/2014 8:58:12 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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