Posted on 01/19/2023 9:59:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Pope Francis is just full of surprises. Word has now emerged that the Pope, using coarse language, advised Spanish seminarians that, even if the person making a confession is not penitent and does not intend to repent in the future, priests must grant that person absolution. By doing so, Francis departed from Catholic doctrine. More than that, he has just removed eternal punishment for any and all crimes and sins. As I said, full of surprises.
The Catholic Herald has the details:
Priests should grant absolution in the confessional even when the penitent has no intention to repent, the Pope has said in a speech which has shocked seminarians.
The Holy Father put aside a written speech, describing it as “boring”, and delivered an off-the-cuff address to seminarians from Barcelona, Spain, in which he frequently used foul language.
In his address, he ordered students for the priesthood “not to be clerical, to forgive everything”, adding that “if we see that there is no intention to repent, we must forgive all”.
“We can never deny absolution, because we become a vehicle for an evil, unjust, and moralistic judgment,” Francis reportedly told the seminarians, who were accompanied by the Auxiliary Bishop Javier Vilanova Pellisa of Barcelona.
Priests who deny penitents absolution are “delinquents”, the Pontiff said, according to the Church Militant website.
Did he really say that priests shouldn’t be vehicles for “moralistic judgment”? I thought the whole point was that priests existed to aid their parishioners in living a moral life consistent with Biblical teachings in order to prepare them for a deserved ascension to Heaven in the afterlife. Without that morality bit, the Church reverts to the paganism of placating gods who behave in random, usually immoral or amoral, fashion.
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Absolution (Ab = from; solvere = to free), is the remission of sin, or of the punishment due to sin, granted by the Church. (For remission of punishment due to sin, see Ecclesiastical Censures. Excommunication. Indulgences.) Absolution proper is that act of the priest whereby, in the Sacrament of Penance, he frees man from sin. It presupposes on the part of the penitent, contrition, confession, and promise at least of satisfaction; on the part of the minister, valid reception of the Order of Priesthood and jurisdiction, granted by competent authority, over the person receiving the sacrament.
Wow and I’m not even catholic!
Benedict was the last pope. I don’t know what this is. Wicked for sure though.
To begin with, any cleric offering “absolution” is commiting a sin - pretending to have spiritual ability they do not have.
This Pope’s a Jack Chick plant.
Almost every single day, a new outrage. How long, O Lord?
Keep the Faith and stay close to God in prayer. This chaos will cease at some point.
Too bad the RCC doesn’t have a 25th amendment
The Pope is a DOPE! AND Demonic. A son of satan himself.
Why don’t you Catholics DEMAND his resignation?
What will it take for you to speak up?
Is there ANYTHING he could do to get you to denounce him? ANYTHING?
Somebody needs to wash his mouth out with soap again
He is the False Pope.
I’m pretty much a CINO now. After being told I was influenced by Satan for being a traditional Catholic, that was enough for me.
My local parish Priest is awesome, but otherwise I’ve checked out.
This apostate Francis MUST GO! There was MAJOR dirty pool being played to instate this fraud!
“We can never deny absolution, because we become a vehicle for an evil, unjust, and moralistic judgment”
So he’s essentially accusing God of being evil, unjust and moralistic.
True, even though us lowly protestants don’t do the priestly absolution thing, we still recognize that there is no forgiveness without repentance.
Well, they can always hold a conclave and elect another pope and then we can have another period of “dueling popes”. It’s been a few centuries since they did that though.
“Is there ANYTHING he could do to get you to denounce him? ANYTHING?”
The conundrum for the Catholic, I think, is that this pope, no matter what he does, was lawfully selected. And according to their doctrine, that makes him the lawful successor of Peter, and the representative and voice of God on this earth. So to reject him is to reject the Catholic church, and to reject salvation.
If you really believe that kind of thing, it’s going to be a pretty significant barrier to you speaking against him, no matter what you actually think of him or what he says.
In fact, the Pope has abandoned Christ.
I’ve mentioned on other threads that there is no group at the Vatican who can force a reluctant Pope to step down if he has a form of dementia.
Not comforting.
RE: I’ve mentioned on other threads that there is no group at the Vatican who can force a reluctant Pope to step down if he has a form of dementia.
I don’t think Pope Francis has dementia. Something else but not dementia.
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