
032: Sin and Penance
Life Is Worth Living: A Fulton J. Sheen Catholic Podcast
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The Power of Confession
Only God for can forgive sin. But how did he know? He did it through a human nature. Now God can communicate that power to other human nature. He communicates that power of forgiveness to his church. When you forgive men's sins, they are forgiven. And the very words that he used to Peter and the Eleventh or to his church implied hearing confessions. This is possible only because they could make a judgment on the material that was given. What would happen to justice in our country if all judges and courts and so forth when they had murderers and thieves and dope addicts before them handed out Kleenex? Sin is pride. Why shouldn't we bury our head and our hand at
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