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I am having trouble understanding what you are saying here. Catholic priests are not allowed to say what others have told them in private.
No, all Catholic priests must keep what is said private. There are no exceptions. Revealing what is said publicly under any circumstance results in automatic excommunication and being removed from the priesthood.
You are basically applying your experience of Catholicism in a particular place within a particular culture to the entire world. In other countries, Catholics would say they are Christian because being Christian implies they are Catholic.
I am having trouble understanding what you are saying here. Catholic priests are not allowed to say what others have told them in private.
No, all Catholic priests must keep what is said private. There are no exceptions. Revealing what is said publicly under any circumstance results in automatic excommunication and being removed from the priesthood.
You are basically applying your experience of Catholicism in a particular place within a particular culture to the entire world. In other countries, Catholics would say they are Christian because being Christian implies they are Catholic.
They are told specifically what to preach on each week. If you hear a sermon here in the U.S., over in Europe or another country the same sermon is given in all the other catholic churches on that same day.
The Romans made the early catholic church preachers come to them and tell what was told to them in confession to arrest the people who by their standards were breaking their laws. This is taught in the Catholic's own catechism classes, which you have to go through plus be baptized and take communion before you become a full member of the church.
This was the original reasoning why going to confession to the preacher was started, and some catholic churches still hold to this, but most are pulling away because the Vatican deemed it immoral and sacred to release information said in confession.
Just like the other things they have been in the past so strict on, that they are now slowly turning from.
In the catechism classes they even teach that a future pope will be the false prophet in the last days.
You will see catholic preachers that now even smoke cigarettes, and drink alcohol.
Next the questions that always comes into play is where does the bible say you have to do penance to be forgiven of sins, or to pray to certain saints for certain things in life, to be called father, or that a preacher can not marry ?
These are all things added to the word, or that was changed in the word.
The catechism classes teach you a number of things that was done to defile the catholic church by the Romans, but still leave out others that are done contradictory to the bible. I am not saying they aren't saved, but I do point out what they do that are not bible based.