#GregoryTheGreat also made the doctrine that penance only worked if a priest offered it after confession, & so began the teaching that priests hold the #KeysToHeaven & can damn any sinner—anyone who had any sex other than marital coitus—to hell.
DYK #GregoryTheGreat (d.604) declared #penance only worked if offered by a priest after confession? Since then, priests have held the #KeysToHeaven & can damn a sinner to hell for #fornication & other #sins. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine
DYK #GregoryTheGreat (d.604) made the #doctrine that penance only worked if a priest offered it after confession? So began the teaching that priests hold the #KeysToHeaven & can damn any sinner—anyone who had any sex other than marital coitus—to hell. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
