Why do Catholics have a problem with Calvinism?

[MKJ]

There is a way that defies calculation in which God surrendered power by becoming Christ, and yet did not.

I suspect the answer to that seeming paradox lies in God's extemporal simultaneity, for even as Christ hung on the cross, in God He was victorious over death--and always had been.

And I would say that something similar is very likely true of this idea of God's sovereignty.

Saying God cannot leave space for other beings with real free will is as much a imitation on God as saying he cannot give up his sovereignty.

But what does the Cross teach us, and the Resurrection? That God defies the limits we see, that self-giving is not separate from true power, that it is in a fundamental way at the heart of being loving and life-giving.

In Calvinism, creation seems to be a sort of sterile self-pleasuring.

 

[Rhamiel]

What if someone is not in a position to get to confession? (Like in too remote an area, or perhaps too sick.) Could they just ask for forgiveness on their own and be forgiven?

yes, God knows the heart, if one has perfect contrition, you will be forgiven of mortal sins even if you are unable to make it to confession