Fr. Thursday: "Avoiding a [Amoris] priest who gives advice like you mentioned (hypothetically, I presume) regarding the 6th Commandment"
March 31, 2021 Dear Ann, Good morning, and all the very best on the feast of the Chair! As always, I enjoy what you write and what you and “Super Nerd” discuss on your podcasts. I had one thing to add to your remarks on podcast #046 , about the 48 minute mark; in addition to avoiding a priest who gives advice like you mentioned (hypothetically, I presume) regarding the 6th Commandment, your readers (listeners) should know that any priest who advises violating the 6th or 9th Commandments is guilty of solicitation, i.e. inducing the penitent into impurity. It doesn’t have to be inducement into a sin with the priest himself; it can be any approval or encouragement to commit any sin of impurity. Solicitation, of course, still carries the penalty of suspension a divinis and excommunication latae sententiae (i.e., no adjudication needed). Any penitent who encountered that kind of thing should rightfully inform the bishop or vicar general, and then go straight to the Sac...