Are Catholics who miss the Eucharist and confession punished?

This question is actually a should / ought issue. In very few cases are priests checking cards at the door (in fact such is forbidden) so unless they know certainly you are in grave mortal sin, the state is notorious, or you have been subject to e... read more

Catholics who miss the Eucharist and confession are punished as a child deprived of his mother, a friend of his beloved. Evil is an abscence of good and love. Unlike darkness evil kills life as nothing positive floorishes under the abscence of love. read more

A Catholic may only receive Holy Communion if they are in a state of grace. In an emergency, and with no opportunity to go to confession, one may receive Holy Communion after making a sincere act of perfect contrition. read more

But priests will, we know, suffer punishment, even martyrdom, rather than break the seal of Confession," Archbishop Fisher said April 1 during his homily for Easter Sunday at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. read more