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Show 229: Confession, part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. Today we'll continue
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to discuss the sacrament of confession, or reconciliation or penance.
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You know, it goes by all three names. These days
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more called the sacrament of reconciliation, but it's the same thing.
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Before the und we get we'll get some questions and
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answers from a Protestant about the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
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this from the Classic Work radio replies, I tell you
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you can guarantee you can count on one thing. Protestants
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hate Jesus's mother. I don't know why when I say
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that there is an element of demonic influence in all
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Protestant teaching, in every Protestant church. Just mention the blessed
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Virgin Mary. Say it in those terms, blessed Virgin Mary,
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and watch them become fully possessed. Nine out of ten
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we'll start essentially hair on fire, doing backflip, screaming at
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the top of their lungs. They hate Jesus's mother. There's
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no rational reason they should. I mean, if someone insults
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your mother, are you gonna be happy with them? Your
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earthly mother just walks up to you and you know,
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calls her some horrible name. You're gonna get angry. What
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you want to bet Jesus doesn't really like him when
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people would disrespect his mother, And yet they do it,
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and they get really they laugh and sneer and make
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all kinds of insults. And meanwhile they say they only
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believe what's in the Bible. And there's not a negative
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comment about the blessed Virgin Mary in the entire Bible.
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Quite the contrary. So what is that If it's not
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satanic possession, demonic possession on some level, what is that?
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I mean, they act like the devil. I don't know. Anyway,
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The person says, why call Mary a virgin seeing that
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she was a mother? The linking of these two terms
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as an insult to reason, and they answer the assertion
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that an omnipotent God is limited by natural laws, which
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he himself established as an insult to reason. Jesus, the
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child of Mary was conceived miraculously without the intervention of
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a human father, and was born miraculously, Mary's virginity being
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preserved throughout. I do not claim that any natural laws
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were responsible for this event. I claim that God was responsible.
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And the only way you can show that the doctor
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is not reasonable is by proving that there is no
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God or that he could not do what Catholic doctrine asserts.
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The person says, where does it say in scripture that
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Mary was ever a virgin? And they answer, Isaiah the
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prophet seven fourteen certainly predict the supernatural and extraordinary birth
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of the Messiah. And he wrote the Lord himself, or
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to give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
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and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.
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Sing Luke says, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God
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to a virgin, and the virgin's name was Mary. When
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Mary was offered the dignity of becoming the mother of
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the Messiah, a privilege to which any Jewish maiden would
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ordinarily look forward to with eager desire, she urged against
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the prospect, the fact that she had no intention of motherhood.
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How shall this be done? Because I know not man.
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She does not refer to the past, but by using
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the present tense indicates that her present, that is her
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present and preserving intention. The Angel assured her that her
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child would be due to the miraculous operation of the
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Holy Spirit, and that she would not be asked to
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forfeit the virginity she prized so highly, and then only
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did she consent Luke one twenty six or thirty eight.
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When Jesus was born, had none of the sufferings usually
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associated with childbirth. Yeah, that's why I got a big
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issue with most Christian movies and television that showed the
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blessed virgin Mary and having labor pains, that the Chosen
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series and such is actually pretty heretical and not Catholic
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at all. When Jesus was born, Mary had none of
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the suffering usually associated childbirth. The child was born miraculously.
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Mary herself in no way incapacitated. She herself attended to
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her own needs and those of her child. She brought
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Firth to Fourth, her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
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swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger. Luke two
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to seven person says, did not marry to cloak her
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own sin. Persuade Saint Joseph that her child was with
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the Holy Ghost, answered No, that is absolutely false. Mary,
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saluted by an angels full of grace, was the purest
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and holiest woman who ever lived on earth, and as
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a matter of fact, was blind confidence in God. Mary
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refrained from explaining the event to Saint Joseph, leaving all
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to God. As Saint Matthew tells us, behold, the Angel
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of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying
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Joseph's said of David, fear not to take unto thee
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marry thy wife, for that which is conceived of her
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as of the Holy Ghost. What you suggest has been
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said by certain people merely because the Catholic Church honors Mary.
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Their hatred of the Catholic Church is so great that
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they dislike all she loves and are willing to overlook
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any injury to Christ in fostering their hatred. Yet how
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can they hope to please God by dishonoring his mother.
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Every true child bitterly resents disrespect to his mother, And
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Christ was the best son who ever lived. The more
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we honor Mary, the more we honor Christ. For the
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honor we show her is because of Christ. If He
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were not the central figure, Mary would have been forgotten
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long ago. And we'll wrap it up there. I mean,
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he goes on, for he'll ask several more questions. And
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you know it's good to hear these questions and hear
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the answers, because you even though that book was written,
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oh about one hundred years ago. Yeah, Radio Replies was
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written in the nineteen twenties. Unfortunately, if anything, Protestants are
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more ignorant now than they were then, and less literate,
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less knowledgeable of history, and many for far more fanatical
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and ignorant in their hatred of the Catholic Church. And
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you know, I just barely converted to Catholicism. Somebody saw
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my crucifix and said, why do Catholics worship Jesus's mother
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and not Jesus? And like they don't, Yes, they do.
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I know this, and I've seen that and tried to
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very calmly, very rationally explain Mary and doctrine and this
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otherwise polite, even tempered lady, middle aged lady who was
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active in the community and charitable aspects, and one of
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the heads of the County Republican Party and you know,
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civics and all that stuff, turned into a raging lunatic
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before my eyes. And I think that may be when
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I began to understand that there is actually a demonic
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influence in Protestantism, even among you know, otherwise very devout people,
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people that would be glad to tell you about Jesus
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and read the Bible to you and pray, pray for
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you and all that they something comes over them, red
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in the face, spitting, sputtering, cussing, raving like lunatics at
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the very e of the blessed Virgin Mary, or when
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they see your crucifix. It's really, there's no, it's not rational.
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And if it's not rational, what is it? Well, obviously
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it's irrational. Well you know, Satan, the father of lies,
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is the one opposed to all reason and rationality there is,
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like it or not, whether it's Baptist or Presbyterian, or
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Methodist or seven Ay Adventister, Pentecostal or Anglican or Episcopal
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or Lutheran or Grace Chapel down the street, non denominational,
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no matter how Bible believing and Bible studying and so
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called born again because they actually can't be born again
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unless they're born of both water and the blood. But
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you know, they don't receive the Eucharists hopefully they've been baptized, hopefully,
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but they say they're born again, which makes no sense
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against taking the Bible out of context. No matter how
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devout these people may claim to be and believe they are.
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There is a satanic influence when you mention, as the
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fathers just said, the most holy woman to ever walk
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the face of the earth, the Mother of God, and
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they react with demonic mockery and rage that cannot be
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of God. There is a serious problem, and I mean
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there is a serious problem. And you know today's today's scripture,
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today's Gospel and the mass readings was Jesus said, Many
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will say to me, Lord Lord, did we not dine
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with you? Did we cast out demons in your name? Etcetera, etcetera.
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And he will say, truly, I do not know you.
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Be gone from me, evildoers. There will be many people
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who believe in God, who have faith in Jesus. Faith
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alone is not enough. Faith plus works is what the
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Bible actually says. Of course, Martin Luther changed that to
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suit his own heretical doctrine. What are those works? Those
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works are being charitable, being obedient, and receiving the sacraments,
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as well as anything you might do for the least
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of these. Faith alone is not enough to get you
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into Heaven. You're not going to be saved on faith alone.
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Salvation comes through the Holy Catholic Church and to whatever extent.
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Protestants agree with the Catholic Church, that's going to be
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their chance. But a faithful Christian who hates the Mother
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of Jesus is going to have a rude awakenings. I
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don't understand it. I mean, honestly, I mean I was
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born and raised Protestant, you know, I mean, I guess
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I was a born Protestant, but I was raised Protestant.
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No one ever taught me to have any kind of
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negative feeling against the Blessed Virgin Mary. If anything, she
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was honored and respected. And then something happened, It seems
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to have happened, especially in the last couple of decades. Suddenly,
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well maybe it was zero all along. Maybe once I
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became Catholic and people would see me praying a Rosary
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or see me wearing a crucifix, the pure evil hatred
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began to arise from friends, people who called NEI their friend,
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from family, from strangers, from you know, girls I would
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date who said, you know, well, for instance, one was
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Presbyterian and she said, you know, she would join the
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Catholic Church if we got married, and we were really serious.
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We were engaged for a time, and then suddenly disrage
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and anger against the Catholic Church came out, and she said,
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by no means would she ever convert Catholicism, by no
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means would she ever allow her children to be raised Catholic.
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And I went, I mean with her arguments and complaints,
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I said, grab the Bible. Pick up the Bible. It's
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go point by point. And I disproved everything, all of
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her fallacies, all of her things she believed to get
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about the Catholic Church. And at the end she had
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to admit what I was saying was in agreement with
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the Bible. But she said, never would she allow her
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children to be raised Catholic, that they would sit on
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the same pew as their grandparents in the Presbyterian Church.
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And that was the end of the relationship. You know.
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I was also engaged several years later, almost a decade later,
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to the most beautiful, wonderful, intelligent Mormon girl you can imagine,
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and shesolutely embraced the Catholic Church until her parents found
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out and she disappeared. Literally she said, I may have
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to go away for a while, and I'm like what,
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And the next day she was gone, like gone. To
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this day, don't know if they I presumably took her
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against her will, and I've never been able to find her.
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I did finally find out that she was safe in
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living with her sister, but nobody in her family would
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talk to me. They would not even tell me if
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she was alive or dead. When they found out that
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she was going to marry a Catholic and convert to Catholicism,
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she disappeared. She didn't show up for work the next day.
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Her friends didn't know where she was, the people she
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had gone to high school with and a little bit
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of college, you know, her coworkers, her best friends had
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no idea deal where she was, and her family would
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not speak to me in person or answer the phone
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or answer an email. I don't know what happened there,
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but yeah, when I became a Catholic, I had I
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had no idea of true anti Catholic bigotry until I
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became Catholic, and then it, you know, it hits you
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on a weekly basis, you know, whether it's in person
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or online. Especially online. People are vicious online because they
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know there's not gonna bey consequences. I mean, I'm a
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you know, six foot four two and twenty pound guy
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with a big hunting knife on my belt. Most days,
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very few people really want to get in my face aggressively.
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I mean women are the worst. Actually, they know you're
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not going to hit them, because a Southern man doesn't
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hit a lady, so they'll get really vicious. But most
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guys will not get in my face. But online, it's
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like an old friend of mine said, you get called
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everything but a child of God. Well, anyway, let's look
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to continue with the sacrament of the reconciliation. And we're
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talking now about the confessor the priest. No priest can
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give absolution who has not received the faculties for hearing
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confession from the bishop of his diocese, to none of
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the apostles and to their successors. Dear Lord, give the
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power forgive sins to them alone. Did he say, after
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his resurrection, receive you the Holy Ghost. Who sins you
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shall forgive, they are forgiven. And those who sins you
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shall retain, They are retained. That's the Gospel of John,
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chapter twenty, verse twenty three. Write that down. I have
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yet to meet a Protestant who has ever apparently even
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read that verse. That reminds me of the Presbyterian girl.
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She was so upset that I would go to a
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priest for confession. You have to go to God alone.
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A man can't forgive your sins. I said, hand me
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the Bible. Let's go to the chapter of John. I
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read it to her. She didn't believe it. I put
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the Bible in her hand and asked her to read
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it to me. She said she had never heard that
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verse of the Bible in her entire life. Now, how
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is that the case. It's in a Protestant Bible. It's
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in both the Catholic and Protestant Bible. They don't teach
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it in Sunday School, and when Protestants read it, I
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guess they have a tendency to kind of skip over it. Recently,
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I think I mentioned this before. A lady with a
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PhD gotten a debate with me online, and I quoted
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that and once she denied it it was in the Bible,
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and then I proved it was in the Bible, and
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she said, well, that means it's like the Lord's prayer
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forgive us as we are trespassed, as we forgive those
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trespassing anstas. I said, wait a minute, you're an educator
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with a PhD. Go back to third grade. Tell me
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how you can diagram that sentence in a way to
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make it fit the meaning you're trying to assign to it.
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That was the end of the conversation. She knew that
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the Bible taught something absolutely opposite of what she believed.
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That was the end of the conversation. Right down, John
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twenty John, Chapter twenty, verse twenty three, John twenty twenty three. Anyway,
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he commanded the apostles to loose the bands of Lazarus
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after he had risen him from the grave, to indicate
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to them that the grave no to indicate to them.
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Let's try it again. He commanded the apostles to loose
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the bands of Lazarus after he had risen from the
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grave to indicate to them. Was given the power to unbind.
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It's a hard sentence. The power is called the power
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of the keys, because it is the gates of heaven
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closed against the center are reopened to him. Thus the
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confessor is the doorkeeper of heaven. The bishops can confer
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the right to forgive sins to such pre as a
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deem fitted to hear confession a priest's a rule has
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faculties for the whole diocese in which the bishop has
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given him an appointment. Priests who are duly authorized to
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hear confession have not the power to absolve from all sins.
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Since there are certain sins which the Pope for the bishop,
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has reserved himself for judgment that goes back to the
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Council of Trent. They can only absolve from these sins
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of jurisdiction be delivered to them by the Holy See.
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These are called reserved cases. These are very rare, by
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the way, usually in times of real serious heresy or excommunication. Anyway,
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the bishops are accustomed to reserve themselves absolution from more
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heinous crimes, such as apostasy, perjury, murder and arson. The
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object of this is to deter the faithful more effectively
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from the commission of such crimes. Secular magistrates cannot pass
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sentence on all criminals. Many cases have to be sent
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up to a higher court for judgment. But at the
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point of death all pret may absolve all penitents whatever,
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from every kind of sin or censure Council Trent. Again.
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In places of pilgrimage, the priest can usually absolve in
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cases reserved for the bishop, and in many dioceses they
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are empowered to do So during missions at Easter or
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when a general confession is made, and the confessional the
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priest stands in the place of God. Therefore the penitent
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is bowed to yield to him obedience. If our Lord
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himself sat in one confessional in an ordinary priest sin another,
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the one would not remit sins any more fully than
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the other. Why is this We call the priest who
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hears confession father because he represents our heavenly Father. For
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the same reason, he deals with the penitent gently and indulgently,
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like a father. We must obey the confessor, for it
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is not a man whom we obey but in his person,
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but is God, who has said he that heareth you
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heareth me. If we obey our confessor, we may be
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sure that we would not have to give account of
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our actions to God. For should the confessor be at error,
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there is no blame attaching to the penitent. He cannot
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do wrong and obey. Those who would make progress and
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imperfection should obey their confessor, as they would obey the
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voice of God, even should they practice of some devotion
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or penance be forbidden them. Saint John of the Cross
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says that to rebel against the dictum of the confessor
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manifests pride and want of faith. In the confessional, the
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priest exercises three functions, the office of teacher, physician, and judge.
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In his office of teacher and priest has to instruct
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the penitent. If he perceives that he is ignorant of something,
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is something important for him to know. Like a guardian angel,
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he directs the traveler in the right way. In his
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office of physician, he listens to the penitent who is
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sick with the disease of sin, and he gives an
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account of his condition. As the physician listens to the patient,
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describing as by early pains, he gives him the reniment
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remedy to affect his spiritual cure. As a physician, prescribes
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medicines for those who are sick of body. In his
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office of judge, he must decide whether the penitent is
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or is not to be absolved. In the former case,
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he gives him ample solution. In the latter, he withholds
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it under no possible conditions. May the priest repeat anything
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out of the confessional. This obligation to secrecy is called
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the seal of the confession. Not even to save his life.
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May a priest reveal what has been said to him
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in the confession Saint John Nepham Mousine, I guess could
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not have been prevailed, prevailed upon either by menaces or
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torture to disclose the queen's confession to King Winceslaus. That
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monarch accordingly ordered him to be thrown into the maldaal Oh,
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it's a river, I guess, and five lights floating over
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the water mark the spot, whereas corpse lay not even
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to avert a terrible calamity. May the priest reveal what
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has been said in confession. A king once asked the
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court chaplain whether if anyone confess that he intended to
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assassinate the king, he would make it known. He said,
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on no account. The clergyman replied, Then the king said,
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my life is not safe, and he said he would
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be less. So the priest rejoined. But for the confessional
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and the seal of confession. The obligation of secrecy also
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exists in regard to the penitent. A priest's servant wants
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confessed to him that he had stolen his corn. I
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guess I don't know corn means in that regard, but anyway,
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the priest was obliged to leave the key in. Oh,
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but it's actually corn from a barn. I've never heard
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of a priest having a barn, but I guess this
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is from the Middle Ages. I don't know. So a
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priest servant wants confessed to him that he had stolen
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his corn, the priest was obliged to leave a key
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in the barn door, the same as before. The seal
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of confession must be observed no less strictly in the
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court of justice, for the divine law is higher than
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human law. So even though he knew the guy was
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going to steal from him again, he left the key
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of the same spot because he couldn't show that anything
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knowledge a knowledge was taken outside of the confessional, even
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from himself. I'm reminded of Saint Faustina Koulska and her diary.
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Her confessor her priest is doubting that her visions are
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really coming from God, and he says, if you know,
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we'll find out if it's true or not. Next time
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you speak with Jesus, ask him what I confessed in
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the confessional last time I made a confession. And so
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she did, and Jesus responded to her I had forgotten,
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so I mean seriously, which you confessed to the confessional
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never leaves that room or booth or whatever it might be.
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The penalty for violin the seal is deprivation for the
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remainder of the priest's life. Besides several ecclesiastical punishments. We
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hear from time to time a bad priest who apostasize,
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but never has one been known to fall so low
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is to break the seal of the confession. The obligation
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of secrecy is for the protection of the penitent as
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well as to safeguard the sacrament of penance. It's also
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important to point out that, you know, the Anglican Church,
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for instance, originally their orders were valid. They don't seem
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to be anymore, but you know, it was actual Catholic
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priests who ordained the first priests who became Anglicans, so
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they had you could do real sacraments, but the Anglican
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priest was obligated to tell a government official what was
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said in the confessional. Yet another reason why the Anglicans, well,
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they basically no longer practice confession anymore, but it's not
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a valid sacrament. The same is true in certain Orthodox churches.
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I know that could be a controversial statement. Yes, the
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Orthodox priests can still administer valid sacraments. They are still
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in Apostolic succession from the time of the schism, but
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under the Soviets. Yeah, if you went in there and
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you said, you know, father, I'm thinking about assassinating such
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and such official, or I withheld monies from the poet,
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they had to tell the Soviet officials what was said.
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They violated the seal of the Confession. And I believe
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the same was true in Greece when the Muslims the
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caliph had taken over. That was one of the vowels
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they had to make their highest authorities not to God
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but to government. And I don't really know how Orthodox
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reconcile that, because even if their priests are in valid
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Apostolic succession, which maybe not all of them are, maybe
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they are, I don't know, they have certainly invalidated certain
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of the sacraments. They also allow for divorce. They this
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is what I was told when I was dating an Orthodox,
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a Russian Orthodox young woman who became just a very
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good friend. She had been married and divorced, and I said, well,
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you know, we would have to go through a Catholic annoyment,
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and she said, well, that makes sense. I think I
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actually would like to do that. But we did end up,
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you know, just becoming very good friends. Were it was
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explained to us by the priests that the Orthodox Church
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allows for certain like trial marriages. Your first marriage, if
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it's if it only lasts a short period of time,
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doesn't count, apparently, so that invalidates the sacrament of marriage.
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I don't know what all sacraments are valid and what
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aren't in even very devout Orthodox churches. I don't know.
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Maybe it's just up to the priest how closely he's
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going to follow the teachings of Christ and his church.
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I mean, in other words, you would say the more
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Catholic and Orthodox priest is, the more valid is sacraments. Yeah,
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that's probably a good way of putting it. And yeah,
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it's it's it's uh. I mean, if they don't respect
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the authority of the pope, then I mean it's really
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as hard to say what what authority. I mean, the
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authority given to the bishops comes from the pope. The
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authority given to the priests comes from the bishops. When
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you cut off the pope and say we just believe
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in some elders, and they have more authority than the pope.
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You well to say the least you divided the body
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of Christ. They are in schism they you know, some
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Orthodox guy was trying to say, how can you say
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we're in schism You know the same We had the
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same apostles as you do. And when the church has split,
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the Orthodox Church was larger than the Catholic Church. I said,
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it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. The Catholic Church came first.
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You admitted to that. You said that I don't remember
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ten twenty or something, that the Orthodox Church rejected the
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authority of the Catholic Church. By definition, the schismatic church
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is the newer one. And he flipped out. He couldn't
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stand that. I mean, and I mean, that's again, that's
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basic logic. I mean, he went, I mean he said
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it was like ten twenty. I mean, I'm not an
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expert on Orthodox by a means, he said, yeah, I
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mean Apostolic succession. The pope had authority until this date,
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and then we branched off and don't follow the pope anymore.
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And so I went and I started pulling out like
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you know, origin and polycarp and Saint Clement of Rome
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and all these, And I'm like, these are documents talking
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about the authority of the pope and that there can
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be no valid Christian Church that isn't under the authority
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of the pope, that are during the first one to
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two three hundred years of the church. Well, I reject
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them because I reject all posts. I said, but you
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said that the pope was valid and the Catholic Church
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was the one true church until ten twenty. So I'm
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giving you a pope from literally one a d and I, dude,
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just blew up. I mean, it really is seemingly pointless.
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I don't know. It's like Saint Teresa Lesso said, it's
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up to me to explain the truth. It's up for
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the Holy Spirit to convince someone else of the truth.
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It's not my job. But I mean, honestly, the Orthodox
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argument does not make a lot of sense, especially when
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you get into like the philip whatever it is, or
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whatever that crap. I mean, it's just an absolute garbage
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doctrine that makes no sense whatsoever and is actually apostate
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and heretical. It's a means of denying the Trinity essentially,
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and yeah, we kind of had some counsels and such
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several fifteen hundred years ago now that defined Christian doctrine
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as the Father's son in the Holy Spirit, calm, substantial.
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But you know, they find some way to twist things around,
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really to make a distinction without that much of a difference.
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But as they do, they fall into total heretical error.
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And I mean, it's probably better to be Orthodox and
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be Protestant because it's closer to being Catholic. You got
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a better chance of salvation. But there's no substitute for
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the Catholic Church. I mean, you're either Catholic or you're not.
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And if you're not, it's really kind of hard to
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figure out how you're validly Christian. I mean, like I said,
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there are a lot of Protestants who are going to
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have a rude awakening when Jesus says, truly, I do
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not know you because you never ate my flesh and
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drink my blood, because you never obeyed my church, because
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you never receive the sacraments, and faith alone is just
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not getting to cut it unless you're completely ignorant. And
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then you know, I said to God, I say, all
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the time, a judge can in human terms. A judge
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you go for a court of law, can pass a
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sentence or commute a sentence. It's up to him how
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strict or how much mercy he wants to show a defendant.
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Very few crime james carry, you know, a mandatory sentence.
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It's up to God. You know, he made each person.
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He's going to judge them by what they know and
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understand and their capacity and all that. But you know,
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the Saints say outside of the Catholic Church, there's no salvation.
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There's no salvation outside of the Catholic Church. So that's
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a tough one to reconcile. And yeah, we just have
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to keep praying for the unity of all Christians every
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single morning. Try to make it a practice to pray
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that Orthodox and Protestants will return to the Catholic Church
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and then all people throughout the world will convert to Catholicism.
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I pray daily that all Muslims will renounce violence and
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converted Catholicism. I think it's something we really have to do.
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But anyway, where was I Okay? So no priests violates
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sealed confession right, the obligation of secrecy for the protection
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of the penitent as well as to safeguard the sacrament
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of penance. The penitent may give the priest permission to
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make use of what he has told him in confession,
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but the confessor must be very very chary of availing
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himself with that provission. Very careful, very chari is the
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word we don't use anymore c. H A R Y.
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But in other words, if you had committed murder and
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you went to the priest and you said, you know,
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you confess full of your sin, and you said, father,
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would you please contact the police for me and help
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me negotiate, you know, turning myself in the priest would
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do that. But otherwise he can't. He must only do
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so when something really important is at stake, and as
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there's no risk of thereby brain confession discredit. The seal
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of confession does not bind the priest if anyone speaks
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outside of the confessional of which has been previously confessed.
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Every Catholic is perfectly free to choose his confessor. The
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slightest coertion in regard to confessions forbidden for fear of
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leading anyone to conceal a sin. Saint Teresa says, oh,
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what mischief the evil one is enabled to do if
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force is put upon anyone in regard to confession. Accordingly,
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no one is obliged to go to confession to his
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parish priest unless it be at Easter, as is a
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rule in some places. Everyone is at liberty approached the
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sacraments wherever he chooses, and the priest may not refuse
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to hear any man's confession because he belongs to another parish.
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Monks are required to go to confession to a member
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of their order. Nuns have their confessor appointed by the bishops,
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yet the ordinary confessor. Yet besides the ordinary confessor, the
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bishop or other superior has to offer them twice or
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thrice a year, and extraordinary confessor whose duty is to
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hear them again, it's from the Council of Trent. No
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one can prevent them from making their confession to him.
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Whoso desires to make progress and confession and perfection of
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say must place himself under the guidance of some particular confessor.
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That's a quote, well, that's source to Saint Philip Neary.
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I'm not sure if it's in exact quote a source
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to him, though he says if a man wants to
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learn a professional trade, he must have a master to
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instruct him. How much more he who wishes to acquire
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that most difficult of all professions, Christian perfection, He who
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would ascend to a high mountain, must have an experienced guide,
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how much more he who would scaled the heights of
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Christian perfection. Choice should not be made of a confessor
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without mature deliberation and fervent prayer. For twenty years Saint
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Teresa failed to find a spiritual father who understood her.
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She persevered in prayer, and Saint John of Vivilla was
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sent to her. A wise confessor should be chosen one
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who would not consult oh one would not consult the
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first doctor one met with about one's bodily ailments. Nor
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in legal difficulties should one take the advice of anyone
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but a solicitor, And should one use less precaution in
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a matter on which one's attorney depends. One must also
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choose a confessor in whom one has entire confidence. The
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devil ruins many souls by showing distrust between the penitent,
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and by sowing distrust between the penitent and the confessor.
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One's confessor should not be changed without good reason any
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more than one would leave a doctor who has attended
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one for long and who knows one's constitution. It is, however,
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well to go someone else occasionally so as not to
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get into a servile subjection to one individual. And I think, yeah,
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we'll wrap it up there. I think we got one
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more section, one more show on confession. We will talk
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next time about the effects of penance, what going to
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confection actually confession actually does for you. And that's the very,
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very important because not only do we have to explain that, yes,
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Jesus did actually institute the sacrament of confession, Yes he
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actually did give priests the authority and duty to hear
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confession absolve sins, to forgive sins. In fact, yes, that's
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actually in your Bible, and I can show it to you.
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But here's really why you should, because you know you
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get a lot of benefit from it as well, and
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you know little care and stick approach, I guess, but
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you know it's it's all part of explaining and being
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able to defend our faith. So y'all have a great week,
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and I will talk to you next time.