(November 27, 2022 at 1:08 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(November 27, 2022 at 12:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, don’t feel special. I was baptized, confirmed, have been to more Mass more often than most people have had hot dinners, have confessed, attended Catholic school for eight horrifying years (and Sunday school just as often) and was (briefly) an altar boy.
I say you don’t understand because EVERYTHING you have posted on this topic says it is possible (not preferred, not optional, just possible) to be absolved of sins - in the most extreme of circumstances - without the formal sacrament of Confession.
This is what I’ve been saying all along, yet you post things that go hand-in-glove with what I’m saying as if I’m wrong.
Boru
As I have stated, I have simply been posting from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which was promulgated by Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter Fidei depositum. Having said that, I do not think that Catholic Answers, a conservative Catholic organization, is representing Catholicism accurately, but, being a former Catholic, I do not really care. And, so, my "argument" is not with you, it's with them, but, then again, who cares??
For someone who isn't having an 'argument' with me, you're giving a phenomenally good impression of doing just that.
Boru
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