
Day 201: The Confessor’s Role
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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The Two Questions Every Priest Wants to Hear
The Gatechism highlights the fact that priests must encourage the faithful to come to the sacrament of penance, and they must make themselves available to celebrate this sacrament each time Christians reasonably ask for it. If a priest ever reveals what he's heard in confession, then he is automatically excommunicated from the church. The most serious ecclesiastical penalty is excommunication.
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