Catholic Church Leaders Selectively Extending God’s Grace
This seems closely analogous to the selling of indulgences by the Catholic Church in the 15th century. Why would God uniquely authorize grace and forgiveness to boost attendance at a Papal event in Spain this month? Answer: He wouldn’t. This is an example of the will of men (the Pope and Catholic Church leadership, in this case) gone awry.
“The Vatican has given authority to priests who are in Madrid during the pope’s visit there to give absolution to women who confess to having had an abortion – and has empowered priests to lift excommunications for such women…. Lombardi said that the Vatican often extends authority to absolve certain sins and to lift excommunications at big papal events. Any woman who knows that the church considers abortion a sin and goes through with the procedure is automatically excommunicated, Lombardi said.”
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Church extends authority to absolve sin of abortion for papal visit http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/authority-to-absolve-sin-of-abortion… What’s your take on this? Sent from my iPhone
Church extends authority to absolve sin of abortion for papal visit http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/authority-to-absolve-sin-of-abortion… What’s your take on this? Sent from my iPhone