Pope Francis gave blunt advice to nearly 900 priests and seminarians preparing to be confessors. His audience with participants of the 31st annual course on the internal forum, organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary, took place in the Paul VI hall and online.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS The pope clarified that being merciful doesn\u2019t mean turning a blind eye, but he also said that when hearing confessions, a priest should not linger unnecessarily on penitents\u2019 sins.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS The pope reiterated that the sacrament of reconciliation is a continuous conversion that requires abandoning oneself to God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 12, 2021. \u201cLet us always remember that each one of us is a sinner who has been forgiven. If any one of us does not feel this way, it\u2019s better that he not hear confessions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XZ9GDw8YJ1c","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpenitenzieriaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpenitenzieriaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Dear brothers, let us always remember that each one of us is a sinner who has been forgiven. If any one of us does not feel this way, it\u2019s better that he not hear confessions. It\u2019s better if he does not become a confessor.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Don\u2019t ask indiscreet questions. I\u2019ve learned a very important lesson from Card. Piacenza. He told me that when he sees that a person is struggling to confess a particular sin, but he understands what it is, he tells them, \u2018I understand. Let\u2019s move on.\u2019 Don\u2019t cause them more pain. Don\u2019t torture them.<\/em><\/p>\n