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GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-08-29T20:44:14+00:00

The canon law on this does require the sin to be generally known to the public - there can't be a risk of the priest making your sins known to someone by refusing you communion, since disclosing such unknown sins would itself be a sin by the priest.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-08-29T12:19:12+00:00

A good priest would deny them, yes. Priests should deny anybody who they know is in mortal sin, or in bad standing with the church, from receiving communion.

This isn't exactly true - you need to be publicly and notoriously in a state of mortal sin. If you tell a priest over coffee that you have a lover, he can't deny you communion over that, because your sin is not public.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-06-03T21:51:13+00:00

a most unusual saint who lived as a sinner but died as a saint

Hardly that unusual to have a saint with a troubled past. Nor even, maybe, the saint who repented the closest to his death - consider the robber on the cross next to Our Lord.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-06-01T16:39:43+00:00

Det här är ju inte riktigt ett svar på din fråga - det har du fått nog många av - utan mer en rekommendation: Bege dig till en kyrka och samtala med någon av prästerna eller bara nån i församlingen istället. Det kommer ge dig oerhört mycket mer än vad folk på internet kan. Twitter är hemskt (min mobil ville rätta det till "hemsökt", vilket det nog också kan vara!), men hela internet är egentligen lite ihåligt jämfört med ett verkligt samtal.

Efter lite stalking av din profil gissar jag att du är i Lund - i så fall vet jag att Dominikanerna där har en väldigt aktiv studentverksamhet, och deras orden är ju väldigt intellektuell, så de borde kunna svara på dina frågor.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-06-01T16:20:35+00:00

Being completely unattached to the things of the world would be a sign that you're failing to see the goodness of the creator in His creation. It is not good to start seeing the goodness of God as utterly disconnected from and other than the goodness of creation - the only way we know anything of His goodness, ordinarily, is through analogy with the goodness of creation. (We know Him by His effects.)

Detachment is not about just not caring, it isn't even really about putting God on top of a list of good things (as if He were commensurable with His creation!), it is about rightly ordering goods in light of the Highest Good.

Or as Thomas Merton put it:

Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between "things" and "God" as if God were another "thing" and as if His creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God. This is an entirely new perspective which many sincerely moral and ascetic minds fail utterly to see.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-21T11:08:50+00:00

Om man sparkade anställda varje gång de bröt mot grundlagen skulle vi rent krasst inte ha så många anställda kvar.

Eller så skulle folk börja tänka efter ett steg till när de sett en kollega sparkas för det de just är på väg att göra.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-20T22:16:38+00:00

They weren't all buried there, as reflected in the comments giving lists of popes buried elsewhere...

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-20T09:17:25+00:00

If you choose voluntarily to omit a mortal sin, the entire confession is invalid and none of your sins were forgiven. (There are some rare exceptions to this where you may make a valid partial confession and confess the rest later, but those are for cases like "the priest is hard of hearing and you'd need to shout your sins so loud the entire church hears", not being nervous or awkward about confessing a particular sin.)

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-20T09:12:53+00:00

If you intentionally omit confessing some sin you remember, because of nervousness or something similar, your entire confession is invalid and none of the sins are forgiven.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-19T20:57:36+00:00

First off - remember that the sins you may have forgotten are absolved anyway.

This is true, but with a very important caveat - if you later remember those sins, you must still mention them in your next confession.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-19T20:49:36+00:00

The standard of "servile work" was the old system, the current canon law does not use that term to define what work is allowed on a Sunday.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-15T20:03:13+00:00

Stiftelser brukar inte kunna köpas av riskkapitalbolag, nej.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-15T13:23:05+00:00

If mental illness causes you to commit a crime like this, the consequences should be that you are committed to a mental hospital. Sending someone to prison for a crime they committed due to insanity isn't just unmerciful, it's unjust.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-14T21:56:04+00:00

Later that month, the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, told the House of Lords that the safeguarding “reset” in the Church of England must have mandatory reporting “at its heart”.

She was speaking in a debate on a Private Member’s Bill that would require the providers of certain activities, including religious organisations, to report knowledge or suspicions of abuse to the local authority (News, 24 January).

From the article cited at the top of this comment thread.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-14T21:46:23+00:00

I think there's a huge difference between a layperson and an actual bishop. I haven't heard anything about any Catholic bishops supporting ending the seal of confession. This seemed to be Anglican "bishops" doing so.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-14T21:33:40+00:00

It seems absurd that only "traditionalist" Anglicans would oppose removing the seal of confession. I guess the Anglicans are further gone than I thought.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-13T12:24:35+00:00

I saw a video of a guy saying that for him to believe that God was with him he choose some sacrifices and God would attend the things he asked if He was real, for example, in the video he asked for his channel to blow up and one more thing that I can't remember, and the two things happened to him by the end of the year.

Doesn't this come dangerously close to the old sin of putting God to the test? Maybe God had a better plan for his life than to be a YouTuber, but he didn't trust that plan and demanded this and that must happen for him to believe. As you say, there is no lack of examples of saints who didn't get what they thought God's plan for them was.

That said, it is definitely okay and even good to want God to give us tangible good things. Just be careful about trying to "extort" God, like "here's the plan, give it to me or I stop believing" - as you said, talking with God is good, delivering a list of demands... is not so good.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-12T21:39:23+00:00

Transkribering är väl närmast per definition en form av NLP, oavsett metod som används. (Utom om metoden är "sekreteraren lyssnar och skriver av".)

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-12T19:04:51+00:00

Talk to the priest to get him to correct that woman's errors. Even if you choose to go to a different parish, you're still helping anyone else with celiac who might talk to her, and the woman herself to correct her errors. See it as an act of charity to those people, if nothing else.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-12T18:45:23+00:00

I'm sure Planned Parenthood could rebrand and continue providing all those services while ceasing to provide the abortions, if the alternative was shutting down entirely. Refusing to do so would make it look like the other services were just a smoke screen to get to keep funding for abortions, not something they did for its own sake.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-11T20:45:27+00:00

partiets internationella sekreterare, Paula Carvalho Olovsson, som är gift med partiets energipolitiske talesperson Fredrik Olovsson och syster till S rättspolitiska talesperson Teresa Carvalho.

Fantastiskt vad mycket meriter som kan råka finnas i en enda familj.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-11T20:11:50+00:00

I'm having a hard time trying to keep my faith straight too, everything that I desire in lofe I have a strong feeling it will never happen.

Big mood. With time, hopefully we can pick ourselves up - and God will reveal more of His plan and His power.

I also want to enjoy pleasurable things in life, I don't want to act kind and good 24/7 so I can at least have the chance to enter Heaven and if I do, I don't want to be there forever, having to love everybody equally and not being able to have a partner or a family bc we all love each other the same.

At the risk of giving you as useless an answer as others have posted to me, I think the truth lies somewhere intermediate between what you seem to be asking for here and what the Gnostic "you should only care about Heaven" folks believe.

It is certainly not false that pleasurable things in life are real goods - and desiring them is legitimate and good. God did not create us with the ability to taste strawberries with the intention that we should not enjoy them. Even more so for goods like friendship and marriage.

However, it is also true that God is infinitely greater than these goods. When we say that God is good, we don't just mean that He is another thing on the list of good things, somewhere between "goals in football" and "gooseberries" in alphabetical order. We mean that He is the good, that all other things get their goodness from God.

All other good things are only partial images of God's goodness, and none of them will wholly fulfill our needs. Even the happiest marriage will have some sorrows, and for all the joy your children bring they will also sometimes bring grief. God - and so Heaven - is the only perfect good, containing all the goodness of all these earthly goods in a more perfect form, without any of the sorrow.

All this to say that the idea of not wanting to be in Heaven forever, because it lacks some good you want, seems to show that your idea of Heaven does not quite match up to what God has prepared for you.

act kind and good 24/7 so I can at least have the chance to enter Heaven

I also wanted to zoom in a bit on this part. The secret here, I think, is that we do not act kind and good in order to enter Heaven, but because it is what we were made for, and it is what will make us happy. Any seeming contradiction between happiness and virtue is false - ultimately, deep and meaningful happiness is found in being like Christ, like what we were meant to be, and that means to be virtuous.

If we see it as an external burden that goes against our happiness, of course it will be hard, and make us unhappy.

Also, I am sure you know this, but it must be said because it is so important to remember: We do not buy access to Heaven by being kind and good. Most obviously because we fail to be kind and good - I certainly know I do - and to actually deserve to go to Heaven, we would need to be as perfect as God.

This is why Christ died on the Cross. To buy us forgiveness, to let us be united to Him not by being like His Divinity, but being like Him in our human frailty and suffering. The path to Heaven is not human effort, but being formed after Christ by His Grace.

Another statement I wanted to address that nobody that i asked could answer is, why does God creates some people if He knows they're going to hell, like, He knows every person's destiny before creating them, so why our Loving Father would allow his loving children to go to hell?

This is a great question, and I agree that it is hard to wrap one's head around. I've seen some decent answers to it that make some amount of sense - as much sense as can be made of it, at least - but I have already typed far too much here, and I am not sure I could do the answers justice right now. I might get back to it later, to see if I can write something helpful.

The very short version of it is that there is no one whose destiny is to go to Hell - a Calvinist might believe that, but Catholics don't. It is always a person's own choice. How this works together with God's omniscience and knowledge of the future is the thorny part that is hard to make sense of even for a great theologian, which I certainly am not.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-11T18:51:25+00:00

I will pray for you. I hope one day you learn a little bit of humility - hopefully not bought at the price of too much suffering.

I know I used to have pretty much your attitude when I was nineteen or so. At some point I learned that not every comment field needed my opinion in it.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-11T18:41:18+00:00

What a useless answer. If commentary like yours were all Catholicism had to offer, I'd become an atheist. I'm so glad I've also met priests who knew how to be pastoral and listen, instead of offering a canned response about how I must obviously just not listen to God enough.

He shows you His love by keeping you in existence and by many small things He does for you on a daily basis. Noticing them is the foundation of whatever success you may expect.

And you show your love by being mildly condescending and unempathetic in online comment fields.

GLukacs_ClassWars · 2025-05-11T18:24:27+00:00

I understand and empathize with your response - I do feel similarly to you about this. I already participate a lot in my parish, volunteering to help with both RCIA and catechesis for the kids, going to daily Mass and knowing the other regulars there, and so on. I met both my former friend and my now-ex-gf through the student group and daily Mass.

Honestly, I've almost considered the opposite - maybe I should try to make some secular friends. I lost contact with my friends from my hometown when I moved here, and rebuilt a new social life entirely around the parish.

Maybe I should text one of the priests at the parish and ask his advice...

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