re: I Hope All Faithful Catholics Will Join Me In Prayer That When Pope Francis is Called Home

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Can’t get past confession to a priest. Lord God Jesus can only forgive sin

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Actually you are correct.
The CC teaches that when the priest absolves me of my sin he is doing it persona Christie (as a stand in for Christ) it is Christ who forgives. We agree.
But you will say then I don’t need to go to a priest, I will go straight to Christ.
As for me, I go to the priest because its RIGHT THERE in scripture that the apostles were ordained by Christ to forgive sins.
“Whose sins you forgive are forgiven, those you hold bound are held bound”.