Interesting Article: "A High View of Marriage Includes Divorce"

This is an interesting article. It specifically mentions that divorce protects a women from abuse when her husband is unrepentant, to which I wholeheartedly agree. But what about when he is fully repentant? Not only that, but is continually working to right his wrongs, repair the damage, and become the man, husband, and father he should have been in the first place? It doesn't address that, presumably because there is no Biblical basis for divorce anymore in that scenario (since he has repented and is now seeking the Lord and reconciliation).

 

Yesss !! This !! I can’t steal from a store , repent and keep doing it and repent and expect forgiveness from the store owner , or God . But that’s my take , I’m not really religious. I used to ask my MIL who is VERY religious ( my SO was an alter boy , all boys schooling until college then went sex crazy and porn started ) if someone is in confession and the priest is “with” little boys , does god hear the persons confession and what right does the priest have to listen ?? She could never answer me

 

I believe regardless of what sins a priest has committed if a priest forgives a sin for someone else then that sin is forgiven in God's eyes. A priest can't forgive their own sins.

This is my belief, others may believe differently.

 

I believe that too , but when I first asked her is when everything blew up in the Catholic Church , a lot of the times over the years she just sounded like a hypocrite when it came to that . Forgive 7000 times she always said lol as a human being that is VERY hard to even forgive “a few” times for the same offense

 

A priest in the confessional is acting in the person of Christ (in persona Christe). Therefore, God is hearing the confession and is giving absolution, not the priest himself. Whether or not he is in a state of mortal sin is irrelevant.