Correct, hence why God may have willed the plane to hit his house , Sodom and Gomorrah style. Perhaps God realized he wasn’t going to change and was sick and tired of him committing the same sin.
And was forgiven for it. Yep.
And, in certain cases, this is sufficient to reduce the sin from “mortal” to “venial.” Not always, according to the teaching of the Church. But it’s a possibility. So, we don’t know that God would judge this a mortal sin. But, that’s far above our pay grade to decide.
Perhaps he would have. Like I said, this is why sin is so terrifying – this can happen! And probably does! And we should be so concerned that this might happen that we should shrink away from the near occasion of grave sin!
Perhaps, but it’s immaterial: he did sin gravely. And there are consequences for grave sin.
no it was the priests desire to sin. he can’t desire to sin and desire to repent at same time.
if he sinned with conscious knowledge he was sinning and with intent of “i’ll just confess this and get rid of it later” that makes it worse than sinning without conscious knowledge of sinning
committing moral sin isn’t nonsensical because it feeds the sensual pleasures, thus its no mystery why humans do them. however, it doesn’t guarantee a right to be forgiven, if you die between the act and confession. Just another reason to regularly go to confession and not to commit moral sins whenever possible.
No such circumstances. The man is dead, hence there is no petition of forgiveness being rejected. Again, this is being made into Jesus or God’s problem when it is the sinner’s problem. All sinning involves risk. That is the key point being missed.
It is forgiven – when there is repentance and a commitment to not sin again. That’s what’s missing in your thought experiment.
Your example doesn’t demonstrate a “penitent” who is “willing to change”. It demonstrates a sinner who is staying put in his ways.
Past tense. That contrition led to forgiveness of the past sin, not future sins.
Agreed. And, what it takes is a new contrition (for the new sin) along with a firm purpose of amendment. That isn’t present in your example.
Those are mysteries. The Church’s mission is not to know things that belong to God alone, but to work with what we have as human beings. The mysteries of faith should call us to be more human now. And that means making the decision to follow God.
You know where the body is. The question is whether it’s still connected to the soul.
Souls do not confess sins. People confess sins. If the body is dead and the soul is alone, it’s past the point at which it can appeal for forgiveness.
A disembodied soul cannot ‘learn’.
When things go wrong we get on our knees and take responsibility before God. “Immediately”, to use one of Mark’s favorite phrases.