Icxpion, good idea, that duo SHOULD ideally go to a distant monastery preferably in Greece or far far away
and do a lot of manual work perhaps to compensate for their dreadful deeds and examples and in the case
of M., teachings allegedly which corrupted and confused numbers of souls.
Revnitel, that is a really good point about the lack of sincerity in Confession being a sin.
I know someone who glibly recites the most minimal things and FAKES a "Grande Repentance",
thereby deceving various priests over the years,
After all what nice priest would IMAGINE that someone could be a "sociopath" / a deceiver par excellence ?
I remember this person used to often say when I exhorted them to go to Confession, "I went, and
I told the priest that I ...[some miniscule fault]" - when in reality this person was a pathological liar,
just to start...
Priests develop great intuition of course, but they can't be EXPECTED to understand these serious mental
pathologies. It may take years to uncover the inconsistencies and deception.
I think I am mentioning this case not to criticize a specific individual.
But to alert priests that this type is RAMPANT out there today in America, and perhaps increasing
everywhere.
They should be alert that some rather Histrionic personalities [usually women] with a convincing
performance and high drama, relate less than 1 % of their real sins
and don't even regret THOSE ! They are smug and actually look down at the priest sometimes inside themselves,
though they would not ever admit this.
A caveat to keep in mind for anyone and in many scenarios.
