A Church-Centred Religion FORGIVENESS #1442 The Church is the means by which Christ has willed forgiveness and reconciliation granted #1444 Christ has given the power to reconcile sinners with the Church to the college of the apostles (bishops) #1445 Whomever the Church excludes from her communion, is excluded from communion with God; reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God. #1448 God acts to forgive through the intervention of the Church, who through the bishop and his priests forgive sins
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