Thank you for drawing this to our attention, Brother. I think it just underlines the fact that not even the Pope himself believes that Catholic "absolution" has any effect whatsoever. But the punters like it.
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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan
Enquiring minds would like to know that if this is possible why doesn't the pope just issue the absolution order once and for all and dispense with the Vatican's massive, costly and corrupt bureaucracy? Couldn't the "Apostolic Penitentiary Tribunal" be doing more useful things with their lives?
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The answer to that is probably no, they couldn't. What are they qualified to do, other than talk nonsense to deceive the gullible? Outside of Democrat politics and the Catholic church, who listens to that? I wouldn't trust them to feed the hens.