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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, I am not Catholic, so explain to me--if you can go and confess sins at any time, why is not going to Mass such a big deal? Couldn't they not go to Mass and go in and confess the sin of not going and get it cleared somehow? [/quote]

It's only a big deal if the person missing mass does not get to confession and communion soon after commiting the sin.  This, unfortunately, is the case with catholics who drop out during college.  If they eventually return to the faith -- meaning confessing their sins and going to mass regularly again - then they're OK.

But if they die in the interim (unlikely in the case of young people), they will go to hell because they have mortal sins on their soul for which they have not been forgiven.[/quote]
Where in the bible does Jesus teach that people who do not go to catholic mass every week will go to hell?[/quote]

THere's nothing in the bible about any church because Christian denominations did not exist then.  Jesus died as a Jew and Paul started writing his letters and distributing them to home groups another 30-40 years later.

The catechism is the rule book for the Catholic church -- it's in the catechism that Catholics learn that missing mass is a mortal sin.[/quote]
Maybe OP's kids read the Bible and that's why they aren't going to church...[/quote]

Maybe, but most Catholics drift away without cracking a bible.[/quote]

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