Pope extends power to forgive abortion to all priests

AOL News ^ | November 21, 2016 | Reuters

[2ndDivisionVet]

VATICAN CITY, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday extended indefinitely to all Roman Catholic priests the power to forgive abortion, a right previously reserved for bishops or special confessors.

Francis, who has made a more inclusive and forgiving Roman Catholic Church a characteristic of his papacy, made the announcement in a document known as an "apostolic letter" after Sunday's close of the Church's "Holy Year of Mercy".

He said he wanted to "restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life" but "there is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with (God)"....

[Elsie]

Is there any post-Acts evidence of people “Taking this, and eating it, in remembrance of me...” or praying “Our Father, who art in Heaven...”?

Sorry; you get to ask no more questions until you answer some: #135 Do you accept what is written there??

[Elsie]

So you’re disputing the black-and-white text of John 20:23?

Have you an example of sins being retained?

[Elsie]

Good question:

Why not just simply answer the questions rather than just talking around them?

[MHGinTN]

THAT was given to the alive Apostles, by JESUS. Have any of your popes or priests been visited by JESUS to have HIM convey that empowerment?

Apparently you have swallowed the mythos that your pope is receivers of this power from Peter through a long list of popes. THAT LIE is leading an astonishingly large number of human beings to their doom.

I believe JESUS conveyed that power to His immediate Apostles and it ended with the death of the last one HE conveyed that onto. That was an empowerment designed to establish HIS EKKLESIA, not your religious institution.

The scene with Ananias and Sapphira should be a huge clue to you, but apparently the TRUTH therein is unintelligible to catholics.

[DuncanWaring]

Not first-hand, but I’ve heard of it being occasionally done, in a case in which the priest didn’t believe the person confessing was truly repentant.

[daniel1212]

Is there any post-Acts evidence of people “Taking this, and eating it, in remembrance of me...” or praying “Our Father, who art in Heaven...”?

Acts would be included in "Acts onward," but indeed yes, and no, respectively.

Yes:

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. (1 Corinthians 11:23-26)

And no, as regards precisely as “Our Father, who art in Heaven...”, which was not taught to be a ritual prayer, but a pattern. "After this manner," (Mt. 6:9)

And thus among the pprox. 200 prayers in Scripture, we have in Acts onward,

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (Ephesians 3:14)

We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, (Colossians 1:3)

And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, (Acts 1:24)

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: (Acts 4:24)

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:59)

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. (Acts 8:22)

But nowhere does the Holy Spirit provide any examples of prayer in Heaven to anyone else but the Lord, except by pagans.

[Elsie]

Not first-hand, but I’ve heard of it being occasionally done, in a case in which the priest didn’t believe the person confessing was truly repentant.

HMMMmmm...

Now add MindReading to their Priestly Toolbox.

[Elsie]

#135 Do you accept what is written there??

I'm still waiting.

[Bobsvainbabblings]

DuncanWaring
So you’re disputing the black-and-white text of John 20:23?

“Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”

I except it when it is put in context. Will you please post it in context from now on? BVB

John 20:18-24New International Version (NIV)

18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

[Elsie]

bump

[NotchJohnson]

I know for a fact priests have been forgiving abortions already.