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« on: July 12, 2018, 02:18:02 AM »
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    • A very old traditional priest (confessions before Vatican II) stated over his many years in confession, he had only heard two sins that were mortal.


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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #1 on: July 12, 2018, 02:56:33 AM »
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    • Not believable, even in a monastery or convent.  Throughout the centuries, priests and Religious have committed mortal sins during their lifetimes as consecrated individuals. Ditto for lay folks.  I believe that there are rare individuals, very rare, who have never committed a mortal sin. They have tended to be those who died very young, by the way.  

    Not likely that any priest has heard only rare confessions.
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #2 on: July 12, 2018, 07:10:22 AM »
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    • A mortal sin is when you commit a sin knowing full well its wrong, but you do it anyway with full consent. So, I don’t think by that definition there are only two mortal sins. Plus, there is the list of seven deadly sins. 
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #3 on: July 12, 2018, 09:01:19 AM »
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    • Nonsense.  He's a modernist/liberal.  Many of these types define mortal sin as when you knowingly and willingly and explicitly reject God.
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #4 on: July 12, 2018, 09:04:09 AM »
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    • Quote from: MMagdala on July 12, 2018, 02:56:33 AM
    Not believable, even in a monastery or convent.  Throughout the centuries, priests and Religious have committed mortal sins during their lifetimes as consecrated individuals. Ditto for lay folks.  I believe that there are rare individuals, very rare, who have never committed a mortal sin. They have tended to be those who died very young, by the way.  

    Not likely that any priest has heard only rare confessions.
    Likely only Our Lord, His Mother and if there's anyone else, they're probably canonized.


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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #5 on: July 12, 2018, 09:18:41 AM »
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    • Then either he heard two confessions or he has no idea what a mortal sin is. Most modernists seems to think that murder and not recycling are the only mortal sins, so there’s that too. 
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #6 on: July 12, 2018, 03:19:45 PM »
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    • "More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason." - Our Lady of Fatima

    All sins against the 6th and 9th Commandments are mortal sins. - Fr. Alphonsus Maria, Redemptorist
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #7 on: July 12, 2018, 04:03:31 PM »
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    • Quote from: MMagdala on July 12, 2018, 02:56:33 AM
    Not believable, even in a monastery or convent.  Throughout the centuries, priests and Religious have committed mortal sins during their lifetimes as consecrated individuals. Ditto for lay folks.  I believe that there are rare individuals, very rare, who have never committed a mortal sin. They have tended to be those who died very young, by the way.  

    Not likely that any priest has heard only rare confessions.
    St Therese the Little Flower never committed a mortal sin if I’m not mistaken. 
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #8 on: July 12, 2018, 07:39:49 PM »
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    • Quote from: Anonymous on July 12, 2018, 02:18:02 AM
    A very old traditional priest (confessions before Vatican II) stated over his many years in confession, he had only heard two sins that were mortal.


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    If he's very old he could be demented. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and pray for him.
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #9 on: July 12, 2018, 07:42:50 PM »
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    • OR, those in mortal sin, refuse confession!
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #10 on: July 13, 2018, 01:47:38 PM »
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    • Quote from: Anonymous on July 12, 2018, 03:19:45 PM
    All sins against the 6th and 9th Commandments are mortal sins. - Fr. Alphonsus Maria, Redemptorist

    I actually disagree with this.  So, for instance, a quick flirtatious glance made by a married woman towards some man would be a venial sin against the 6th commandment.  Entertaining some slightly sensual thought (vs. directly impure thought) would be a venial sin ... somewhere between the continuum of a pure abstract intellectual acknowledgement of beauty and a mortally-sinful impure thought.  There are even sins against the 5th commandment that admit of veniality, e.g. a smaller degree of disdain for someone that falls short of wanting to murder the person.  Unfortunately, this kind of thinking leads to a tremendous amount of scrupulosity.
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #11 on: July 13, 2018, 01:49:51 PM »
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    • Quote from: Nadir on July 12, 2018, 07:39:49 PM
    If he's very old he could be demented. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and pray for him.

    Perhaps, but I doubt it.  This kind of thinking is extremely common among Novus Ordo "priests".  In my pre-Traditional days, I even had one Novus Ordo priest refuse me absolution because he said that I had committed no sin.  One Jesuit scholastic (aka seminarian) taught at my High School that one essentially had to explicitly reject God in order to commit a mortal sin.
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #12 on: July 13, 2018, 07:19:12 PM »
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    • Quote from: Anonymous on July 12, 2018, 03:19:45 PM
    "More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason." - Our Lady of Fatima

    All sins against the 6th and 9th Commandments are mortal sins. - Fr. Alphonsus Maria, Redemptorist
    Sounds utterly ridiculous!  What would be the fully reasoned basis of his assertion?
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #13 on: July 13, 2018, 07:22:22 PM »
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    • In immediately preceding comment I was only refering to this assertion: "All sins against the 6th and 9th Commandments are mortal sins. - Fr. Alphonsus Maria, Redemptorist
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    Re: Very old traditional priest - years of confession, what he said...
    « Reply #14 on: July 13, 2018, 08:30:17 PM »
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    • Quote from: Anonymous on July 12, 2018, 02:18:02 AM
    A very old traditional priest (confessions before Vatican II) stated over his many years in confession, he had only heard two sins that were mortal.


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    I think this question is bogus.
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