Sentences with phrase «grant absolution»

With the stamp of legitimacy her association with PETA affords her, Newkirk has not only been granted the unrestricted ability to kill without the scrutiny or condemnation of many so - called animal rights activists who grant her absolution, but it has given her easy access to naïve and easily manipulated young people who arrive on PETA's doorstep starry - eyed, desperate to fit in and looking for approval.

If a priest would not grant absolution, one should put up with the situation; God would not withhold grace.

To grant absolution, one is not seeking cast - iron guarantees that the sin will never be committed again, nor demanding perfect contrition.

Typically, only certain priests have the power to grant absolution for the sin of abortion and to lift excommunications that have resulted from terminated pregnancies, according to a Vatican spokesman.

who innocently suffers the consequences of other people's injustices, and who as the creative Word of God has the power and authority to identify with every victim of injustice and, as the one who suffers at our hands, grants us absolution from our evil.

Not exact matches

The presumption, of course, is that absolution will be granted: «If the confessor is in no doubt about the penitent's disposition and the penitent asks for absolution, it is not to be denied or deferred» (CIC, c. 980).

If we began to believe again, Isis would spring to life, granting prayers and absolution.