2007-07-17 13:55:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The priest gives us a penance after Confession, that we may satisfy God for the temporal punishment due to our sins.
The Sacrament of Penance remits the eternal punishment due to sin, but it does not always remit the temporal punishment which God requires as satisfaction for our sins. God requires a temporal punishment as a satisfaction for sin, to teach us the great evil of sin and to prevent us from falling again.
'No Catholic believes that a priest simply as an individual man, however pious or learned, has power to forgive sins. This power belongs to God alone; but He can and does exercise it through the ministration of men.'
2007-07-17 15:57:03 · answer #1 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because He is a pompous mis informed ***, Only God Almighty, through His Son Jesus, can or will give forgiveness!
Priests are the bottom dwellers of the false religions!
2007-07-17 20:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by bugsie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to make us stop and think about our actions or inactions and how the sin hurt others. to assist us in praying to God that all things that are sins hurt Him and we need to come back to Him.
2007-07-17 20:58:41 · answer #3 · answered by Marysia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False belief that if made some restitution for sin...
2007-07-17 20:59:04 · answer #4 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋