{"id":2739,"date":"2021-01-25T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/25\/sacramental-efficacy-despite-the-corruption-of-the-church\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:30:04","slug":"sacramental-efficacy-despite-the-corruption-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/25\/sacramental-efficacy-despite-the-corruption-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramental Efficacy Despite the Corruption of the Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Therefore, the serious believer is thrown back upon his or her own inner resources. Thankfully, the Sacraments are still efficacious despite the corruption of the Church . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Suppose I go to what used to be called Confession, but is now foolishly called Reconciliation. The priest, I have reason to believe, is a  practicing homosexual, a sodomite, a child molester, and doesn't believe a word of traditional doctrine. The Roman Catholic Church is his mafia, his hustle, except that he lacks the honesty of the mafioso<\/em> who in private will admit that  he is a criminal out for self and pelf.  We all know that there are plenty of priests like this. <\/span><\/p>\n

Forgive me, father, if I can no longer bring myself to accept the doctrine of sacramental efficacy given the deep moral corruption of you and your church. I grant the abstract logical possibility that the efficacy of sacraments is untouched by the corruption of their ministers.  But how, in your presence, could  I achieve the heart-felt compunction necessary for true confession knowing that you are a moral fraud? Would the achievement of that state of compunction not be more likely in the  depths of my privacy in claustro<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: Therefore, the serious believer is thrown back upon his or her own inner resources. Thankfully, the Sacraments are still efficacious despite the corruption of the Church . . . . Suppose I go to what used to be called Confession, but is now foolishly called Reconciliation. The priest, I have reason to believe, is … Continue reading “Sacramental Efficacy Despite the Corruption of the Church?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,178,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-ecclesiology","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}