To: marshmallow
The question I’ve had is: Why did he give her absolution and anointing when she is not a Catholic?
3 posted on
08/17/2013 9:34:04 AM PDT by
Arthur McGowan
(If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
To: Arthur McGowan
hey A.G.
so you must have missed that part about the Good Samaritan not being a Jew.
Lurking’
7 posted on
08/17/2013 9:58:12 AM PDT by
LurkingSince'98
(Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
To: Arthur McGowan
Because he believes in the power of these sacraments regardless of the condition of the recipient.
It is called CHARITY.
9 posted on
08/17/2013 10:14:24 AM PDT by
353FMG
( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
To: Arthur McGowan
Pastoral necessity. Danger of death trumps many restrictions in Canon Law.
10 posted on
08/17/2013 10:20:19 AM PDT by
Bayard
To: Arthur McGowan
My question is why did he let the whole thing blow up with rumors and speculation instead of coming forward at the beginning.
11 posted on
08/17/2013 10:37:21 AM PDT by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: Arthur McGowan
Arthur, isn't it true that Baptism opens the door to all the other Sacraments? And that
in extremis --- and surely that was the case here, the whole rescue crew saw that the young woman was in danger of death --- even a non-Catholic Christian who requests it, can receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick?
Even if the priest didn't ask her if she was baptized, he could anoint her conditionally, couldn't he? Or --- if that's not quite right --- since she was asking for prayers, he could assume she had Baptism of Desire, couldn't he?
20 posted on
08/17/2013 7:25:48 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("No one on earth has any other way left but -- upward.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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