Posted on 09/01/2015 7:08:42 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Pope Francis will give all priests discretion during the Roman Catholic Church's upcoming Holy Year to formally forgive women who have had abortions, in the Argentine pontiff's latest move towards a more open and inclusive church.
In Church teaching, abortion is such a grave sin that those who procure or perform it incur an automatic excommunication. Usually only designated clergy and missionaries can formally forgive abortions.
But from Dec.8 to Nov. 26, during an extraordinary Holy Year or "Jubilee" on the theme of mercy announced by Pope Francis in March, all priests will be able to do so, he said in a letter published on Tuesday by the Vatican.
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Yes, abortion is murder. The only difference during this coming Holy Year will be that the priest does not have to go to the Bishop first to forgive this heinous sin.
Our Lord bids us to come unto to Him for forgiveness of all sins, including murder/abortion. His Mercy is so great that He will reconcile even the greatest sinners.
Oh, the anti-Catholics are out for a little wilding. Goodbye!
Priests do not forgive sin, God does. Forgiveness is between God and the penitent. Priests can and always could give absolution to those who committed any sin as long as the penitent shows true remorse, asks for God's forgiveness, and agree to mend their ways and try to sin no more.
In Catholicism, premeditated murder can be forgiven. I thought all sins were forgiven in Christianity if the sinner repents and pays for his sins. Where did I go wrong?? What part of “Go and sin no more” did I miss?
interesting...
I wasn’t aware there was ANY sin practically that God wouldn’t forgive.
So... basically... what this is stating is that prior to this decision.. if a woman who had an abortion and felt horrible about it and sought forgiveness for the evil thing she had done... she was DENIED forgiveness by the catholic church???
I can’t imagine such a thing!
Hey at least abortion is still considered a sin. I’ll give him that.
No priest forgives any sin. Only the one offended - God - can forgive.
So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. “If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.” John 20:21-23
Where in the hell did they dig up this commie moron?
In response to recent revelations that abortion providers are delivering live babies and then killing them, and selling their organs, the pope gave all priests power to absolve women who had an abortion.
No word on whether the pope has declared killing a just-born baby murder.
Astonishing...
The Pope has joined Team Obama on a Global Scale.
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
It will never register in your catholic mind that paying for your sins is the antithesis of Grace. so ... goodbye.
If you read it, the Pope is giving permission to a SCHISMATIC group. It’s not a new thing for the Church’s priests to forgive abortion, murder or any other sin. This is not that difficult.
No, it will never register because it’s nuts!
One of 95 things Martin Luther listed.
Yeah. Priests aren’t the ones we’re supposed to look for any type of forgiveness from.
That’s what Jesus is for.
I think the Pope is downgrading the serious nature of abortion by this action. This is where he deserves criticism. In September the Vatican is going to sign a United Nations document that approves of abortion in the name of reproductive rights.
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