[6] I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by (the) grace (of Christ) for a different gospel [7] (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. [8] But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach (to you) a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed! [9] As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!
(CCC 514) Many things about Jesus of interest to human curiosity do not figure in the Gospels. Almost nothing is said about his hidden life at Nazareth, and even a great part of his public life is not recounted (Cf. Jn 20:30). What is written in the Gospels was set down there "so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name" (Jn 20:31). (CCC 1463) Certain particularly grave sins incur excommunication, the most severe ecclesiastical penalty, which impedes the reception of the sacraments and the exercise of certain ecclesiastical acts, and for which absolution consequently cannot be granted, according to canon law, except by the Pope, the bishop of the place or priests authorized by them (Cf. CIC, cann. 1331; 1354-1357; CCEO, can. 1431; 1434; 1420). In danger of death any priest, even if deprived of faculties for hearing confessions, can absolve from every sin and excommunication (Cf. CIC, can. 976; CCEO, can. 725).
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