[Mark17]

I live in a very RC area.. let me assure you that Catholic have no fear of sin.. they can just bring in their list to the priest,say 3 Hail Mary's and 3 Our Fathers ...and they are good to go ..I hear blasphemy , cursing, filthy jokes ...I see drunkenness, regularly in people that just ate christ...

RN, LOL, stop telling the truth. 😱 We can't have the truth here. It might upset the apple cart. 😂 I know when I was a catholic, I ENJOYED sinning. I lived for it, because I went to confess to a priest every Saturday, then I went out and lived like Hell. I thought it was a wonderful thing. I could sin till the cows came home, and then go to the priest. Heck of a deal. After awhile, even that didn't work out. We continue the war against the old nature. Keep up the good work. 😇

[MHGinTN]

Living the Christian life is to transform. To be transformed into any image even remotely like Christ is impossible without The Life of God in the spirit of a man. When a man is born again from above, then the character of God can begin to manifest in the life of the man to the degree that he 'fathes' in the earnest of his inheritance SEALED in him when he is born again. Thanks be to God

[terycarl]

I could sin till the cows came home, and then go to the priest. Heck of a deal. After awhile, even that didn't work out. We continue the war against the old nature. Keep up the good work. 😇

All Catholics know, I know, and you know, that it doesn't work that way....never has.

Valid reception of the Sacrament of reconciliation, instituted by Christ, requires verbal confession, penance, and a firm intention and actual attempt to avoid sin and the near occasion of sin....withour that sincerity to reform your life and actions...you just wasted your time and that of the priest. A sense of TRUE CONTRITION is necessary for the Sacrament of penance to be valid.