Sentences with phrase «confession to a priest»

To make it acceptable, however, he replaced the requirement of open personal disclosure with private confession to a priest.

As far as confession to a priest, there is no need.

A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest.

Private confession to a priest at least once a year was made obligatory in the thirteenth century.

In the epilogue, when More goes to have his sins shriven, his meager confession to the priest is that he is sorry «for not being sorry.

I've been doing a bit of thinking regarding the concept of confession during my research on multiple different aspects of Christianity, and I've come across the Catholic concept that requires confession to a priest.

Of the seven sacraments six were primarily for the laity: baptism, confirmation, penance (with confession to the priest), Holy Communion, marriage, and extreme unction.

Catholics, as we have seen, have traditionally been encouraged to make private confession to a priest, who offers them absolution.

He also laid down that all Christians were to make their confession to a priest at least once a year.

Priests whose favorite past time involve making out with little boys, Celibacy in ministry, not biblical, confessions to priests; not biblical, praying to dead people; not biblical.