Apparently The Priest Thinks That Everyone Is Automaticly Holy During Holy Week

Yes you read that right. A priest at a parish in North Carolina put these signs up by the confessionals. (Go to First You Get Rid Of The Sacramantals for more) Apparently he hasn't been listening to what Papa Benedetto has been saying recently:

"It is necessary to return to the confessional, noted Benedict XVI, speaking to the participants in the Apostolic Penitentiary's course of formation. The hedonistic and materialistic cultural context is causing a loss of the sense of sin and of the sense of good and evil. Priests, with the example of the holy Cure d'Ars, must guide the faithful courageously, be dedicated to hearing confessions, and establish a dialogue of salvation with the penitents. The certainty of being loved by God which the priest should transfer to the faithful, the Pope said, helps men to recognize their own sin and to be introduced gradually into the stable dynamics of conversion of heart, which leads to the radical renunciation of evil and to a life according to God. For his part, the priest is able to perform this task if he lives an authentic life of prayer, nourished by the Gospel and by closeness to God." (emphasis mine)

& the excuse that he is just too busy during Holy Week won't wash either. Esp in light of what the Pope said.