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A good time to explain Conditional Absolution

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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With today’s air disaster this is an appropriate time to explain something called conditional absolution:

There are several ways to be absolved of sin. Baptism removes ALL previous sin but is done only once. The Sacrament of Confession removes sin. Outside of confession perfect contrition can also remove sin (perfect contrition: sorrow for sin due to love of God, Imperfect contrition is due to fear of hell) Absolution is given near the time of death, however when a plane is crashing its kinda hard for people to line up in front of a priest to get confession or absolution one at a time.

The priest can give conditional absolution to everyone on the plane on his own, it would apply to any person on the plane who would have if conscious of mortal sin sought absolution.

I wouldn’t suggest betting my soul on that situation.

Update 11/18/23: Noticed this post was getting some traffic lately and realized that I left out one thing. The sacrament of the sick (formally called the last rites) also give full absolution of sins which is why Priests can do it and not deacons.

Always available yourself of this sacrament during times of illness.

A voice of sanity in the wilderness

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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Rabbi Yehuda Levin is about to become hated twice by the media, once for being a conservative Jew and once for saying this:

“I understand that it is very important to fill the pews of the Catholic Church not with cultural Catholics and left-wingers who are helping to destroy the Catholic Church and corrupt the values of the Catholic Church.” This corruption, he said, “has a trickle-down effect to every single religious community in the world.”

“What’s the Pope doing? He’s trying to bring the traditionalists back in because they have a lot of very important things to contribute the commonweal of Catholicism.

“Now, if in the process, he inadvertently includes someone who is prominent in the traditionalist movement who happens to say very strange things about the Holocaust, is that a reason to throw out the baby with the bathwater and start to condemn Pope Benedict? Absolutely not.”

Thompson points out that this isn’t the norm:

Rabbi Irwin Kula – a less conservative figure than Levin (not difficult) – also thinks that the reaction to the Williamson business was “outrageously over the top”. I’m not suggesting that Rabbis Levin and Kula represent the majority opinion among Jews; but nor, I suspect, do the professional offence-takers of the ADL et al.

I’ll say what I’ve said before, do you think that Williamson would have lost his seminary if the St. Pius X excommunications hadn’t been lifted? I think not. The media reporting on this outside of Thompson’s site has been atrocious and error ridden; almost as if the motive was to do damage to the Church instead of reporting the news. How about that!

Monring Joe all crash all the time

Posted: February 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Looks like today will be a crash edition covering the air disaster near Buffalo.

6:08 a.m. I didn’t realize that it had been over 2 1/2 years since the last fatal crash in the US. That’s a hell of a record. Although part of the blame can go to a certain skilled pilot out of NY that you might have heard about.

6:15 a.m. Andrea Mitchel today ugh. On non political issues she is usually ok, sort of like Wikipedia. If its all the same to me I’d just as soon deal with the Annoying version of Andrea and not have 48 people dead.

6:45 a.m. The truth o meter guy apparently wrote a book about a plane crash investigation in 1994. Truth-o-meter is preempted but the guy can cover the crash with some info.

7:40 a.m. They are talking the Judd Greeg stuff now. Nobody has mentioned the census stuff.

7:43 a.m. We don’t need a commerce secretary if there is no commerce.

8:26 a.m. If it wasn’t for the Gregg thing we would be talking about the Caterpillar gaffe.

8:29 a.m. Bigger part of the story the census is going to be taken over by Rahm. Rawest of Raw politics.

8:30 a.m. Oh the census is always political. The Bush administration made majority minority districts.

8:31 a.m. Apparently the Black Caucus applied the census pressure.

8:34 a.m. Andrea Mitchell is making excuses for Obama, what a big surprise.

8:40 a.m. Andrea vs Chuck Todd time

8:44 a.m. Joe says fire people, Gene Robinson says I don’t fire people after 3 weeks. Robinson is right.

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