I’m not making any arguments about feelings, I am simply saying that this whole mortal sin, no Eucharist thing is a joke today. Unless you are in the confessional every week or two, certainly no less than once a month, doesn’t matter who you are as a Catholic, you are carrying at least one and probably far more than one Mortal Sin...
Of course, the reality is, like it or not, regular church going catholics will all be dead within the next few decades... most parishes the regulars are retirement age or better... or closing quickly in on it.
The Catholic Church in the US has some big problems to deal with, and while I understand the reasoning behind all of their Mortal Sins, but to claim that absolution is impossible for any sin is a bit much. Saul hunted down and persecuted the followers of Christ, yet God chose him to be the man who would expand the Church.. there would be no modern church without him... If God forgave Saul, its hard to make arguments that God’s Grace ends if you are divorced or remarried. After all, a priest who used his position to molest and rape children can be forgiven, yet, a divorced or remarried Catholic cannot be forgiven?
Yes, I know the new testament.. and yes God hates divorce, but even Mosaic law allowed for it because God knew the hearts of man are frail and weak... so suddenly God forgot this and banned it entirely? I don’t think so.
The Church’s teachings are what they are, the Cannon is what it is, but I think it faces a very very long uphill climb in the modern world.
How dare you assume to know the state of my (or any other practicing Catholic's) soul.
Oh and of course, if you are willing to write a big enough check, amazing the Church will grant you an annulment and then you are all in good standing again... Joke.
My grandparents were married to each other for decades, had and raised 4 children... divorced, remarried each other again a few years later... were married for another decade or so, divorced each other again....
Yet in spite of all of that, my Grandfather was able to successfully get an annulment from the Church... so he could be back in good standing for little more than opening his checkbook.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I loved my Grandfather, he was one of the finest men I have known in my life, flawed in ways like we all are, but truly a great human being, when he passed last year, the receiving line at his funeral was non stop for over 2 hours... I received condolences from nearly everyone of consequence in his town of note.. I have never seen such a thing in my entire life, the lives he touched in various ways in his journey through this world, and how many of them made a point to come pay their respects...
He was not the mayor, or incredibly wealthy, but he was very active in his community, and touched many many lives.
So I don’t point this out as an attack on my Grandfather, but to point out the silliness of the whole divorced/remarried nonesense that seems to get latched in on when it comes to communion.
A priest who used his position to molest and rape children is still a priest. FRoman Catholics always come back with *Once a priest, always a priest*, and *They're just sinners, just like the rest of us*, and other nonsense excusing why they are not immediately defrocked and thrown in jail.