Not exact matches
Large portions of the
Catholic laity, flushed with a sense of unbounded freedom, stopped
going to confession and Sunday Mass..
So if you
went to one of these child molesting priests for
confession, were your sins actually forgiven or does it not count because the Roman
Catholic priest was a child molester?
Approximately six months after I had first started attending my local
Catholic parish, I began
going to confession.
Notre Dame certainly is
Catholic, but I doubt that even 25 per cent of its football team
go to confession and take communion.
You don't think there's a correlation with the fact that people who are
going through tough times tend
to attend church twice as often, and if
catholic, are 3 times as likely
to give
confession than they would be if something wasn't bothering them.
The
Catholic Catechism is quite explicit in stating that only those who have undergone the
Catholic purification rituals (drowning, cannibalism,
confession etc)
go to Heaven.
For
Catholic schools
to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday,
go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal
to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.
If you
catholics voted for Obama you need
to go to confession.
The way
to a renewal of Reformed theology
goes through a retrieval of «the
catholic and Reformational heritage of the church,» which includes the ecumenical creeds, the
confessions of the Protestant Reformation, and the writings of the Fathers and the medievals.
True story: When my (
Catholic) ex and I were dating, he said something about
going to confession & I asked him if he confessed about me.
Josef Albers was born and raised a
Catholic and at the end of his life he regularly attended Sunday mass and
went to confession.
Look, if you are
going to dress up Pascal's wager, and hope
to be credible, you should be able
to show solid evidence that you are a
Catholic attending at least weekly mass and doing
confession every week or so.