Cardinal Sarah Insinuates: Pedophile Priest Cannot Be Forgiven
After having committed paedophilia a priest "can no longer carry the consecrated Host in his hands” - Cardinal Robert Sarah claims in his book God or Nothing (2015, French edition: 311-316). Sarah …More
After having committed paedophilia a priest "can no longer carry the consecrated Host in his hands” - Cardinal Robert Sarah claims in his book God or Nothing (2015, French edition: 311-316).
Sarah believes that such a priest if he continues to celebrate Mass, his disrespect for Christ is so big that - consciously or not - he makes "a pact with the devil.”
He goes on claiming that a pedophile act affects the very being of a priest "in an ontological way" to the point that "the priestly bond that attaches him to Christ is defeated."
According to Sarah such a breach is so "extreme" that this priest "can no longer enter into communion with Jesus.”
"The greatest criminal always keeps the possibility of divine forgiveness but the pedophile priest places himself in a situation of a frontal combat against the Son of God", Sara adds.
This position reflects a radical variation of Donatism, a heretical group in Carthage (4th-6th century) that argued that priests must be faultless in order to …More
Sarah believes that such a priest if he continues to celebrate Mass, his disrespect for Christ is so big that - consciously or not - he makes "a pact with the devil.”
He goes on claiming that a pedophile act affects the very being of a priest "in an ontological way" to the point that "the priestly bond that attaches him to Christ is defeated."
According to Sarah such a breach is so "extreme" that this priest "can no longer enter into communion with Jesus.”
"The greatest criminal always keeps the possibility of divine forgiveness but the pedophile priest places himself in a situation of a frontal combat against the Son of God", Sara adds.
This position reflects a radical variation of Donatism, a heretical group in Carthage (4th-6th century) that argued that priests must be faultless in order to …More
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Cardinal Sarah is speaking here of unrepentant stubborn pedophile sodomite priests who fall into the sin of apostasy. That they are committing the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that is unforgivable. Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Bernardino of Siena explained that persisting in the vice of sodomy turns that sin into blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Now Saint Alphonsus Maria de …More
Cardinal Sarah is speaking here of unrepentant stubborn pedophile sodomite priests who fall into the sin of apostasy. That they are committing the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that is unforgivable. Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Bernardino of Siena explained that persisting in the vice of sodomy turns that sin into blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Now Saint Alphonsus Maria de Ligorio explains how sins in priests are more serious than in a layman and equates the sin of priests with the sin of rebellion by apostate angels.