It is my understanding that a "mere" priest cannot forgive the sin of abortion. One has to go to a bishop for forgiveness.
Can anyone confirm this?
9 posted on
02/21/2003 10:05:57 AM PST by
It's me
To: It's me
You can confess the sin of abortion to and receive absolution from any priest. The 1983 code of canon law no longer classifies it as a reserved sin, that is, one only the bishop can absolve.
11 posted on
02/21/2003 10:37:28 AM PST by
ThomasMore
([1 Pet 3:15-16])
To: It's me
It is my understanding that a "mere" priest cannot forgive the sin of abortion. One has to go to a bishop for forgiveness.From Mark 2:7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
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