u/qerecoxazade

Hey y'all,

I'm converting from Judaism. Been attending mass for months, am waiting on OCIA to officially start, and am spending most of my time learning as much as I can.

I like to spend an hour or so every couple of days reading about Canon law. And I'm struggling with FULLY understanding the seal of confession and the concept of excommunication. Especially in how they interact.

I think you'll get what I mean when I ask. Please assume that I AM catholic for the purpose of the question.

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If I go to confession and tell the priest that I stole a Eucharistic host and purposefully desecrated it... My understanding is that's an automatic excommunication that must be resolved by the bishop.

While excommunicated, a priest is required to not let me take the Eucharist. My excommunication is one he doesn't have the authority to absolve. But he only knows about it because of my confession. My understanding is that the seal doesn't just prevent him from sharing, but also from changing his actions based on what was said.

By law, does the excommunication or the seal of confession take priority here?

I'm not sure if I'm missing something about either of these concepts that would clear it up, or of this is such a rarity that it's got its own specific ruling. But I'd love any input to help me understand better.

Thanks y'all! God bless!

I know that Jingoism comes from an English song from the russo-turkish war. The line being "we don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do".

But I'm finding EXTREMELY mixed responses to who/what Jingo is, or where the roots actually come from.

I debated even posting here to ask bc of how many people on reddit just post GPT or AI overview results when met with these sorts of questions... But saw the rules of the subreddit and it gave me enough hope to ask.

Anybody know anything about this?