Fake priest heard confessions for 18 years

[mdgspencer]

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1133532.shtml

Marriages and baptisms carried out by Miguel Angel Ibarra, the man who really wasn’t a priest, remain valid but confessions are not even though the “grace of God acted” on the faithful who were deceived, spokeswoman for the diocese of Cadiz and Ceuta told AFP.

 

[Feanor2]

Imagine those who may have received confession from this man before they died. How terrible for their families

 

[TheLittleLady]

God’s mercy is greater than we can fathom.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I’m pretty sure God would absolve somebody who unknowingly confessed in good faith on their deathbed to a fake priest.

 

[Feanor2]

Oh I agree but many Catholics are afflicted with scrupulosity and such a predicament could throw them for a loop.