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To: Natural Law; kitkat
Those who claim to be Christian yet condemn the Church for practicing this faith are hypocrites.

I'm a Christian and I believe in salvation and forgiveness of any sin. That said, I also believe sin should be punished and not covered up. By your logic, I can shoot the current sitting Pope yet the Catholic church would be okay with me becoming the Pope once I completed my rehabilitation.

If I shot the Pope today, would you mind me becoming your Pope tomorrow?
21 posted on 03/16/2010 8:26:05 AM PDT by TSgt (RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
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To: MikeWUSAF
"If I shot the Pope today, would you mind me becoming your Pope tomorrow?"

If your repentance and contrition were genuine and you were elected through the Tradition of Apostolic Succession by the Holy Spirit via the College of Cardinals, yes. The Catechism teaches:

1700 - The dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God; it is fulfilled in his vocation to divine beatitude. It is essential to a human being freely to direct himself to this fulfillment. By his deliberate actions the human person does, or does not, conform to the good promised by God and attested by moral conscience. Human beings make their own contribution to their interior growth; they make their whole sentient and spiritual lives into means of this growth. With the help of grace they grow in virtue, avoid sin, and if they sin they entrust themselves as did the prodigal son to the mercy of our Father in heaven. In this way they attain to the perfection of charity.

31 posted on 03/16/2010 8:38:14 AM PDT by Natural Law
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