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Pope extends power to forgive abortion to all priests
AOL News ^ | November 21, 2016 | Reuters

Posted on 11/21/2016 8:37:06 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 11/21/2016 8:37:06 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about being a conservative?


2 posted on 11/21/2016 8:37:50 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s stupid. The Lord forgives our sins when we bring them to Him. (Catholic here).


3 posted on 11/21/2016 8:39:42 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I dare say it is not up to them or to the Pope.


4 posted on 11/21/2016 8:39:50 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It sure would have been nice if he could have mentioned abortion once during his visit to Washington, instead of going on and on about “carbon dioxide pollution.”


5 posted on 11/21/2016 8:40:40 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: NonValueAdded

Pope Francis and The Holy Innocents coming to a theatre near you /s


6 posted on 11/21/2016 8:41:38 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (these protestors are not anarchists. They are Hillary Supporting Demoncr)
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To: bboop

If you deny that sins are forgiven in the Sacrament of Penance, you are not a Catholic.


7 posted on 11/21/2016 8:42:02 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If there’s anything unforgivable, it’s abortion.


8 posted on 11/21/2016 8:42:05 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just an observation but I’d think that power is reserved for someone in a higher plane.


9 posted on 11/21/2016 8:43:21 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Out of your jurisdiction, Pal.


10 posted on 11/21/2016 8:43:29 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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Not a good Pope IMHO.

You bring your sins before God and seek forgiveness, not to a mortal man in a white smock.


11 posted on 11/21/2016 8:45:13 AM PST by InsidiousMongo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought Jesus forgives sin? This confuses me. I’m serious.


12 posted on 11/21/2016 8:45:24 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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I guess that murder is kinda’ sorta’ almost ok with this religious jackass . . . Well, we really don’t want to offend the people who’ve murdered their unborns . . . that would be controversial, and we do want to kinda’ be like the Methodists, don’t we?


13 posted on 11/21/2016 8:46:19 AM PST by laweeks
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Are you not familiar with who forgives our sins in the words of Absolution?

The formula of absolution used in the Latin Church expresses the essential elements of this sacrament: The Father of mercies is the source of all forgiveness. He effects the reconciliation of sinners through the Passover of his Son and the gift of his Spirit, through the prayer and ministry of the Church:

"God, the Father of mercies, through the death and the resurrection of his Son has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins; through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

14 posted on 11/21/2016 8:47:35 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I didn’t know that priests had the power to forgive any sin.


15 posted on 11/21/2016 8:48:26 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: bboop
The Lord forgives our sins

The priest on Fox & Friends this morning agrees with you.

16 posted on 11/21/2016 8:51:10 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure women who have had an abortion are just running to the confessional. The pope’s concept is dumb.


17 posted on 11/21/2016 8:56:28 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: oh8eleven

Murder is murder.

Only one sin is unforgivable. Read the bible and know it.


18 posted on 11/21/2016 8:57:18 AM PST by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When we commit a sin, unless it's murder, which abortion is, we are forgiven of our sins if we confess them to God and never do it again...

Francis the talking poop needs to go to confession for life, he is the false prophet and will dealt with by God...

Keep the faith fellow Catholics...God will take care of us if we pray and are diligent to Him...

19 posted on 11/21/2016 8:58:03 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I always thought the mortal sin of abortion could be forgiven in the confessional. I did not know it couldn’t be until now.

Certainly, the Catholic Church has always preached that forgiveness is available to women (and men) involved in abortion. How is this a change?


20 posted on 11/21/2016 9:03:09 AM PST by PGR88
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