Sentences with phrase «after hearing the confession»

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Early in the narrative, after he has sought out a trusted priest to hear his confession, despite the risk entailed in the journey, Brossard thinks of absolution, a stay against his fear and guilt:

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

Writing the Confessions about a decade after the cataclysmic event that altered the rest of his long and productive life, Augustine gave his readers a detailed account of his conversion — an event intimately intertwined with hearing and reading.

Rachel Buckingham, John's wife, writes a follow - up blog explaining how she felt after hearing her husband's confession.

Then the text moved on to a formidable list of reformanda: inadequate procedures for selection and training of priests, pastoral responsibilities allotted to those living elsewhere (Campeggio as Bishop of Salisbury would be an example — but Rome was full of such men who used a part of their salary to pay a vicar to look after their diocese while they did other more congenial work in Rome); the bequeathing of benefices in wills especially to the children of priests, pluralism, failure to correct those who make money by hearing confessions.

After service the clergy were often engaged in classes, hearing confessions, or attending to special cases.

Madge's message harkens back to Tina Fey's New Yorker piece «Confessions of a Juggler,» in which she wrote: «I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of «crazy» in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.»

Taking confession on a Sunday after Mass, Father James hears something he's never heard before: «I'm going to kill you,» the man on the other side of the screen vows.

From USA Today Best Selling Author Lisa Mondello - A new contemporary western romance series DAKOTA HEARTSShe needed to risk the truth to get a second chance... Poppy Erickson had spent the year wondering how all their lives might have been different after hearing the deathbed confession of her childhood friend.