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@EricBozek @DJFS81 @Dontwurbowdit @trad_west_ I agree. There are many verses that back up this belief. Why do non-Catholics have such are hard time with this? They pick and choose what they want to believe. Even the quote given by OP was incomplete because the following sentence makes the point.

@pryorla @DJFS81 @Dontwurbowdit @trad_west_ In John 20:21-23, Jesus tells his apostles, "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven," passing this authority down to priests.

This is the priest who died on the Titanic to hear confessions and administer last rites. Given the opportunity to board a lifeboat on two separate occasions, Father Thomas Byles firmly declined. He chose instead to stay behind, absolving sins and consoling the doomed passengers. Following the vessel's collision with the iceberg, he assembled the remaining crowds on the aft deck. Those who lived through the disaster recalled him standing bravely amid the panic, listening to confessions, granting collective absolution, and reciting the Rosary right up until the ocean claimed the stern. This is the type of story we should elevate, heroic virtue. May the Lord bless us with more holy men possessing the courage of Father Thomas Byles.

@DJFS81 @Dontwurbowdit @trad_west_ It's actually Matthew 16:19 and reiterated in 18:18

@Dontwurbowdit @trad_west_ The priest acts in persona Christi. He was given that authority by Christ Himself (Jn 23:20) If you deny this, or deny that Christ did not have this authority, it is you who is the heretic. Fr Thomas Byles, ora pro nobis Deum 🙏🏻

@MarylandOspreys @EWTNews Most parishes offer both face to face or screened

@EWTNews Go back to confessionals with screens!

This Lent, a new study finds that two-thirds of Catholics who have not attended confession in the last year say they are open to going. According to “The Catholic Pulse Report: The Confession Study,” which surveyed 1,500 Catholics in the U.S. who attend Mass “at least occasionally,” 67% of respondents who have not been to confession in the past year said they are open to returning, and half of those said they would like to go more often. The study, conducted by the Vinea Research Group, a Catholic nonprofit, found that only 20% of Catholics go to confession regularly (defined as four or more times in the past year), while 12% have gone one to three times in the past year. Of those who go to confession regularly, 83% say they go to receive God’s mercy and forgiveness. Of those who have not gone in the past year, 75% say mercy is the primary reason they would go back. “As central as confession is to Catholic life, in-depth national research on this sacrament has been surprisingly limited. This study illuminates not just how often Catholics go, but why they go, why they don’t, and what they experience when they do,” Hans Plate, founder of the Vinea Research Group, said in a press release. The belief that confession is not necessary to receive forgiveness from God is the most common reason people reported for not going. Of all of those surveyed, 63% held this belief, while 73% of those who have not attended in the past year said the same, according to the report. Plate, who consulted a theologian in the formulation of the survey questions, told EWTN News a lack of catechesis seems to explain this view: “They’ve lost sight of what confession gives them.” They miss out on the “knowledge that they are forgiven. That is the No. 1 fruit of those who do go,” he said. “It’s not a feeling. It’s the knowledge first, not the feeling first.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “individual, integral confession and absolution remain the only ordinary way for the faithful to reconcile themselves with God and the Church, unless physical or moral impossibility excuses from this kind of confession.” Of respondents who have not been to confession in more than a year, half reported embarrassment over talking out loud about their sins, and just over half (53%) said they find participating in the sacrament uncomfortable. About 40% of Catholics who attend confession infrequently say they would like more of an emphasis on God’s mercy over his judgment, and about the same number say they might attend more if they knew that struggling over and over with the same sins is normal. Of those who go to confession regularly, about two-thirds report “a clear sense of forgiveness, reassurance of God’s mercy, and interior peace,” according to the report. Plate told EWTN News that he hopes people learn from the study that “confession is more than you think it is.” “Beyond receiving absolution and forgiveness,” Plate said, the study found that confession also brings “the fruits of interior healing and a sense of renewed vigor in the faith.” The study also found that ”Catholics who attend Mass at least monthly score above national benchmarks on human flourishing, with those who go to confession regularly reporting the highest levels — particularly in meaning, peace, and overall well-being.” Plate called the findings deeply encouraging. “Many Catholics still believe in the sacrament, many have experienced it personally, and many remain open to returning,” he said. “This presents a real opportunity for renewal — not just by inviting Catholics back, but by helping them more fully understand the meaning and power of the sacrament.” Plate told EWTN News that he hopes the group’s inaugural study will help parishes and apostolates do their jobs more effectively. An initiative called The Light Is On For You originated in 2007 in the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, where every parish in the D.C. metro area opens for extended confession hours (typically Wednesday evenings during Lent). Because of the campaign’s success, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in partnership with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Arlington, has made the campaign’s liturgical resources available to dioceses across the country. Many dioceses run parallel or related efforts during Lent, with extended confession schedules or special penance services. ewtnnews.com/world/us/new-s…

What a great idea! instagram.com/reel/DULJDsljA…

@heynavtoor This not new. It should have been expected. It happens with every advancement, email, the internet, spreadsheets, barcode tech,ERP software, Contact Mgmt., Data Mgmt, etc.

🚨BREAKING: Berkeley researchers spent 8 months inside a tech company watching how employees actually use AI. The promise was simple: AI will save you time. Do less. Work smarter. The opposite happened. Workers didn't use AI to finish early and go home. They used it to take on more. More tasks. More projects. More hours. Nobody asked them to. They did it to themselves. The researchers sat inside the company two days a week for 8 months. They watched 200 employees in real time. They tracked work channels. They conducted 40+ interviews across engineering, product, design, and operations. Here's what they found. AI made everything feel faster, so people filled every gap. They sent prompts during lunch. Before meetings. Late at night. The natural stopping points in the workday disappeared. People ran multiple AI agents in the background while writing code, drafting documents, and sitting in meetings simultaneously. It felt like momentum. It felt productive. But when they stepped back, they described feeling stretched, busier, and completely unable to disconnect. 83% said AI increased their workload. Not decreased. Increased. 62% of associates and 61% of entry-level workers reported burnout. Only 38% of executives felt the same strain. The people doing the actual work absorbed the damage while leadership celebrated the productivity numbers. Then came the trap nobody saw coming. When one person uses AI to take on extra work, everyone else feels like they're falling behind. So the whole team speeds up. Nobody formally raises expectations. But the new pace quietly becomes the default. What AI made possible became what was expected. The researchers gave it a name: workload creep. It looks like productivity at first. Then it becomes the new baseline. Then it becomes burnout. AI was supposed to give you your time back. Instead it's eating more of it. And the worst part? You're doing it to yourself. Voluntarily.

What has been largely absent from the media’s narratives about Greenland is the fact that, from 1966 to 1991, Danish authorities ran a systematic program to suppress Greenland’s birth rate by effectively sterilizing thousands of women and girls, some as young as 12, during routine health appointments, without their knowledge or consent. In light of that history, Denmark has no moral standing to lecture anyone about Greenland, its people, or its future, and it certainly does not deserve compensation of any kind for relinquishing control. This was the conduct of a colonial power engaged in population control, extending well into the modern era. Denmark should disappear from the discussion entirely and leave Greenland and its people free of any further interference or pretense.

@Joeinblack Yes

Say YES to God!

Loved this one

@FlagAndFire 9/10 born & raised in PA

Let's see how Southern you are! I'm 8/10, how about you?

@PostsOfCats Never let them taste human food and they will not steal it from you

Their greed sickens me😑

@elonmusknews30 👍

@WHLeavitt A

Pro-Hamas protesters were arrested in handcuffs at Columbia University’s Butler Library. Should those on student visas face deportation? A. Hell Yeah B. No.

Please don't add any more to the abysmal swamp of poor historical information provided on line and in the media. This period is fascinating enough when telling the actual facts. You don't need to make things up. 3/3

@torture_museum Having studied the period and checking with another person who has we were appalled at the declarations made in the blog. Women's main roles were as victims or accusers, NOT in positions of power such as torturers, executioner or tribunal members. 2/3

@torture_museum I just read the Torture Museum's blog from September regarding Women and the inquisition and I have to ask you where you got the references for this article? No bibliography was available and pretty much everything was wrong. 1/2

@MilaLovesJoe Yes, that was one of many reasons I voted for him. Why should taxpayers fund a dept. that has incentivized growing school administrations over their teaching staff. the74million.org/article/intera… while our students understanding of math and science goes down.

Liberal woman has a question for 77 MILLION that voted for the current administration.. “Did you vote for the Department of Education to be dismantled?" What would you say to her?

@Suzierizzo1 Joy Reid is the most uneducated and poor choice of reference on ANYTHING. What was the point of reposting this diatribe

Joy Reid explains who Justice Clarence Thomas really is & trust me it’s eye opening! He was born in Georgia,but was from the Gullah extraction & didn’t speak till he was 7 y/o & then spoke Geechee.Look at the way he’s treating Immigrants now coming here like him for a better life

Dirty CR - Read it- page 58 appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

Tell your State Rep: Vote NO on Gun Control! pennsylvaniafirearmsassociation.org/action/nogunco… via @2aPennsylvania