Sentences with phrase «hearing confessions during»

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In the thirteenth century, a Dominican friar by the name of Etienne de Bourbon was preaching in the village of Sandrans, near Lyon, when he heard during confession that many of the local woman had....

If subpoenaed to testify and asked about what he heard during confession, the court will effectively be asking Fr.

The state of New York recognized, in the landmark religious liberty case People v. Phillips (1813), that compelling a priest to testify about matters heard during confession would be a fundamental violation of Catholics» religious liberty:

Varela said the Roman Catholic Church «has conferred to all the priests legitimately approved to hear sacramental confessions, who are in the archdiocese of Madrid during August 15 to 22, the delegated power to remit during the sacrament of penance the excommunication... corresponding to the sin abortion, to the faithful who are truly sorry, imposing at the same time a convenient penance.»

During a temporary imprisonment he ministered to the criminals, spending a night counselling a murderer and eventually hearing his confession.

To Conrad Cordatus and Nicholas Hausmann he wrote triumphant letters on 6 July: «I am tremendously pleased to have lived to this moment when Christ has been publicly proclaimed by his staunch confessors in such a great assembly by means of this really most beautiful confession», and «Our confession (which our Philip prepared) has been, publicly read by Dr Christian [Beyer, Saxon Chancellor], right in the palace of the Emperor... There is no one in this whole Diet whom our friends praise more highly for his peacefulness than the Emperor himself... all are filled with affection and applause...» He had heard from Jonas that he had studied the Emperor's face during the reading of the Confession and there was a certain humanitas in it.

Sadly the pernicious misinformation that hearing confessions is forbidden during the Triduum still persists in the minds of many Parish Priests.

One might not expect to hear such a confession from a figure like David Gregory, the NBC newsman who moderated «Meet the Press» and served as the White House correspondent during the second Bush administration.