sealabeag:
The stuff in this article is basic Catholic teaching about reception of the Eucharist. I see nothing remotely controversial or unhelpful and I certainly see nothing that would result in someone thinking it’s their place to “accuse” another.
You might be surprised by how many Catholics do not know/understand basic Catholic teaching.
Absolutely. With all this talk of “grave sin”, “serious sin”, and the occasional nod to “mortal sin”, many people have no clue. For instance, many Catholics have the vague idea that the Church teaches against contraception, but they either do not realize this applies to them, or they think (or have been led to believe) that they can disagree and practice it with impunity. Similarly, young people nowadays have no idea that masturbation is,
in itself, mortally sinful. “Back in the day”, this was almost every young Catholic boy’s
bête noire, and having to confess it over and over again was the norm.
There is a school of thought, expressed here on CAF from time to time, that we do not know who goes to confession and who does not, nor what they confess and what they don’t confess, and suffice it to say I have my own thoughts about this. Communion lines are long, and confession lines are short. Maybe they all go to biennial penance services and I’m not there (pretty hard to go to confession once a month, or once a week, that way), or maybe they make appointments and go privately. Or so some would say.
This article is basic Catholicism 101 and there is absolutely no problem with it.
