[Salvation]

Did you already forget that the absolution says God forgives the sins in the Sacrament of Penance?

[metmom]

Then why do priests need to tell someone what God already promised them, except that the gross illiteracy of Scripture that most Catholics display demands it?

[CynicalBear]

Here's the quote "and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." The I there was NOT God speaking. Or are you now admitting that the priests or whatever don't have the power to forgive sins or bind and lose?