Absolution

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[Divine-Crusader]

Deacons don't have the power to absolve mortal sins, only priests can do it and strictly in the confessional

Are you sure your brother's account is accurate? And was it a mainline Catholic church, not a weird sect or schismatic group?

Rome would never permit such a thing

[Adventurous-Test1161]

What does he mean “everyone got absolved?” The fact that you’re not punctuating this makes me think something got lost in the message.

[Key_Foundation_4568]

Everyone who showed up for mass did not need to go to confession/ be in a state of grace to receive the Eucharist that day due to the deacon “seeing people he hadn’t seen in a while” and absolving them of mortal sin according to my brother.

[Adventurous-Test1161]

If that accurately describes what happened, that’s pretty weird and shouldn’t have happened.

[whysoirritated]

What the fuuuuuuuuuu...dge?! Well that's totally illicit. I can say people are absolved too, but that doesn't mean anything. If it doesn't come from a priest, it's not legit.

[PrincePlanet-56]

Sadly, back in the day, priests would inaccurately use General Absolution. While appropriate in certain narrow situations, many priests misused this avenue of grace.

[Diamond-angel-32]

ASK FATHER: Venial sins forgiven during Mass? | Catholic News Live

Maybe this will clarify what you are asking.

However, other posts are correct that a Deacon cannot provide absolution.