Sentences with phrase «catholics go to confession»

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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.