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brian
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Posted: Sun Nov 19th, 2006 12:27 am |
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i forget if i have asked this, but does the pope have a confessor or take place in the sacrament of reconciliation? would he just pardon his own sin, with nobody above him to confess to? how does this work?
i imagine he has advisers and people he talks with, but i did not know if he has a confessor.
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CajunRick
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Posted: Sun Nov 19th, 2006 12:35 am |
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brian wrote: i forget if i have asked this, but does the pope have a confessor or take place in the sacrament of reconciliation? would he just pardon his own sin, with nobody above him to confess to? how does this work?
i imagine he has advisers and people he talks with, but i did not know if he has a confessor.
Yes, the pope has a confessor. A priest cannot give himself absolution.
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Sun Nov 19th, 2006 12:36 am |
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The pope is a human being like the rest of us and needs to confess his sins. Infallibility (divine protection from officially teaching error) is not the same thing as impeccability (the inability to sin). And no one, not even the pope, has the power to forgive his own sins. That power belongs to God, not man, and it is exercised through the sacrament of penance.
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