If you were a Catholic, wasn't it explained to you that the priest, in administering the sacraments, acts in persona Christi capitis, "in the person of Christ the Head"? That's why he says "This is my body ... this is my blood" when confecting the Eucharist, and "I absolve you of your sins" in the confessional. He's an actor/agent/stand-in, not the source of anything.
I was told a lot of things about priests and their divine powers as I watched them get drunk and ride their lawnmowers into ditches and do all sorts of fallible human things.....There’s a difference between “intercession” and actually wielding the scepter.<p.Believe what you will and I’ll stick to believing in the Blood of Christ - which wouldn’t have had to be spilled if He were going to give frail men the ability to absolve each other of sin....as His game plan for the New Cvenant