Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I'm talking on this other forum-like website. It's not really for discussion. It's interesting people's views on confession, priests, sin, and the church.
I was wondering.
Would you as a catholic take communion from a priest who committed a mortal sin?
The other site, catholics said they would need the priest to make a public confession after being convicted to pay his debts to society before they take communion.
If the priest repeatedly sinned, I can see why one wouldn't take communion.
If it were one grave sin, wouldn't confession and forgiveness from the Church be enough to take communion; or, does the catholic want him to be convicted and confess to society first?
Is the forgiveness of a grave sin only forgiven (thus free to give communion) when the Church and other priest forgive the guilty or does the sacrament of giving communion also depend on the conviction and response of society and his sin?
I was wondering.
Would you as a catholic take communion from a priest who committed a mortal sin?
The other site, catholics said they would need the priest to make a public confession after being convicted to pay his debts to society before they take communion.
If the priest repeatedly sinned, I can see why one wouldn't take communion.
If it were one grave sin, wouldn't confession and forgiveness from the Church be enough to take communion; or, does the catholic want him to be convicted and confess to society first?
Is the forgiveness of a grave sin only forgiven (thus free to give communion) when the Church and other priest forgive the guilty or does the sacrament of giving communion also depend on the conviction and response of society and his sin?