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Many of the novus ordo faith communities have general reconcillations where you don't even have to go into the box...just get absolved by walking in the door. Of course it's invalid, but then again sins are just an imaginary byproduct of that harmful condition called guilt.

This is a lie. This is such an untruth, it borders on the sinful.

The contrary position is repeated over and over again by the Bishops. Individual confession is indeed the rule in Catholic Churches. General Absolution can't be given except under extreme circumstances. Any Priest with valid faculties can give a General Absolution, like before a battle or just before a natural disaster.

SSPX Priests can give any type of absolution at all, since they are suspended.

200 posted on 09/21/2004 10:56:54 AM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)

This is a lie. This is such an untruth, it borders on the sinful.

B.S. I have have been to these services (as a spectator not a participant).

By the way, if it was a lie it would be sinful. Typical neo-catholic, violation of one of the Ten Commandments "borders on the sinful"!

Individual confession is the rule but if you think that the Novus Ordo doesn't abuse General Absolution, you are living in a fantasy world.

I will ask you the same thing I asked Mershon: Would you also agree, then, that all the confessions heard by the Schismatic Orthodox Churches are invalid, as the priests lack proper jurisdiction?