Yes. If the priest looses your bindings, acting in the name of God and His Church, you are forgiven. Parish priests have the official discretion to forgive abortion under certain circumstances.
I didnt read any of the other posts besides this one so if anyone said this sorry I repeated it, but we know that the Lord is merciful no matter what the sin. As long as we are truely sorry and go to confession then no matter what the sin is it will be forgiven, so I do not think we need even argue over which is more serious. They are both mortal sins no matter which is great or lesser.
They may kill themselves. The wages of sin is death – eternal death.
Actually, the unborn child feels much more pain than the one being circumcised. Watch The Silent Scream. Also, they now give babies numbing meds. so he doesn’t feel pain during the circ. My son slept right through his.
I won’t contest that. Personally I don’t remember my own circ, so I don’t have any first hand knowledge.
Me neither.Personally I don’t remember my own circ, so I don’t have any first hand knowledge.
Alan
My parents told me a story about the hospital sending them a bill for my circumcision. My dad called the hospital and told them that if they did a circumcision, they took off too much, because “she’s a girl!” 
A MOST EXCELLENT POST. THIS WAS A WISE NUN!
That is so bizarre. If you sin and get pregnant, then know that what you were doing was following God’s plan exactly.
I think the point the nun was making was that God knew the person was going to have pre-marital/extra-marital sex, not that He willed it. God tends to make much good come out of sin, whether it is a child, or our own emotional/spiritual growth, or healing. Whatever He knows we need! Gotta love a God like that! God didn’t will for me to sin, but He knew I would. Why He gave me such a blessing as my son, I don’t know, but I know that my child is NOT a mistake, even though what his father and I did was wrong.That is so bizarre. If you sin and get pregnant, then know that what you were doing was following God’s plan exactly.
If you hadn’t have sinned like that, then God’s will would not have been done. Oh wait a minute, that can’t be right either.
God’s will is whatever happens, including sin? Hmmm…
Makes me wonder where we’d all be if Judas decided not to betray Jesus at the last minute. Then again, Jesus did tell Judas to go do what he had to do, so Judas was only following Christ’s orders, right? :ehh:
If everything happens according to God’s plan, then is there even such a thing as sin? God’s plan for people evidently was that Adam would fall.
Alan
I tend to agree. We were not married yet when our first son was born, but I guarantee he’s a keeper. He’s 18 now. I don’t regret having him, but of course I am all against premarital sex now that we have four teenagers.
It’s interested to learn that everybody has sex. I always used to think that “everybody” would include Mary and Joseph.
I agree. There are very few absolute statements one can make about human behavior. I’ve always thought the statement you quoted was kind of cute.
all men don’t masturbate?