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November 12, 2011
Tough Questions on Confession
Can a priest force you to confess your crimes to the police? How about your parents? Or your teachers? Or your spouse? Or the IRS?
What should you do if a priest doesn't say "I absolve you" in confession? How should you handle cases of doubtful absolution? What should you say to the bishop?
Is it possible to be reconciled with God without going to confession? What about Protestants who commit mortal sins? When is general absolution warranted? And what about the dying who can't confess?
These are among the questions we explore in this week's episode of the Jimmy Akin Podcast!
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JIMMY AKIN PODCAST EPISODE 020 (11/12/11)
* DANIEL FROM PHILADELPHIA ASKS IF A PRIEST CAN WITHHOLD ABSOLUTION TO FORCE A MURDERER TO TURN HIMSELF INTO THE POLICE
Catechism of the Catholic Church 1447
Code of Canon Law 983-984
* TONY ASKS IF A PARTICULAR FORMULA OF ABSOLUTION IS VALID
http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zlitur243.htm
* FRANK FROM SCOTLAND ASKS ABOUT RECONCILIATION APART FROM THE SACRAMENT
Catechism of the Catholic Church 1451-1453, 1483-1484, 1532
James 5:14-15
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November 11, 2011
November 10, 2011
Sinead O'Connor Laughs Off Pope-Killing Fantasies, Blames Own Twitter Followers
According to FOX News:
Irish songstress Sinead O'Connor came under fire a few weeks ago when she took to Twitter to announce that she would perform a "bloodbath" if Pope Benedict XVI visited Ireland.
"Young people of Ireland I love u' said Sinead as she pulled the [f**king] trigger," the artist tweeted, referencing the famous words of John Paul II, which he uttered in his 1979 pilgrimage to Ireland.
Okay, the offense meter just maxed out the scale.
But O'Connor is changing her tune, insisting that her words were all in innocent humor.
I'll bet she is. I've got one word for you, Sinead: "NOT FUNNY."
November 9, 2011
November 8, 2011
German Bishops Publish Porn?
According to The Independent,
Germany's biggest Catholic-owned publishing house has been rocked by disclosures that it has been selling thousands of pornographic novels with titles such as Sluts Boarding School and Lawyer's Whore with the full assent of the country's leading bishops.
The revelations made in the publishing-industry newsletter Buchreport concern Weltbild, a company with an annual €1.7bn (£1.5bn) turnover and 6,400 employees. It is Germany's largest bookseller after Amazon and wholly owned by the Catholic Church.
Buchreport revealed that Weltbild's massive assortment of titles available to customers online includes some 2,500 "erotic" books with unmistakably lewd titles...
Wow! This Pays Off Big!
Saw this video linked on Kevin Knight's site (CHT: Kevin!) as "A chance encounter and shared moment with one of nature's greatest and most fleeting phenomena..."
Starts kinda slow (they weren't expecting the encounter they got, perhaps), and then WHAM!
Do yourself a favor: Watch it in full screen mode.
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
November 6, 2011
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The Weekly Benedict (Nov. 6, 2011)
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ANGELUS: Angelus, 30 October 2011
AUDIENCE: 5 October 2011, Psalm 23
AUDIENCE: 19 October 2011, The Great Hallel, Psalm 136 (135)
AUDIENCE: 26 October 2011, Prayer in preparation of the Meeting in Assisi
A note about the above audiences: There's a longstanding practice at the Holy See's web site where they post a one-paragraph summary of the pope's Wednesday audience and then leave it there for a few weeks until they get a full English translation ready. That slipped my mind when I started doing The Weekley Benedict, so for the first couple of weeks, I accidentally posted links to the one-paragraph summaries of some recent audience. Now I'm fixing that and linking to the full versions, which are available for October 5, 19, and 26 (though for some reason the audience of Oct. 12 still has the one-paragraph summary; go figure). In the future I will be linking only the most recent full version rather than the temporary, one-paragraph summaries. This will mean that the audience listed will be a little more date-lagged, but that way you won't miss any of the great Benedict audience action.
November 4, 2011
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JIMMY AKIN PODCAST EPISODE 019 (11/04/11)
Bible Software Special: How Can Bible Software Help *You*?
Special Guest: Andrew Jones of Logos Bible Software.
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