Sentences with phrase «make private confession»

In some churches people make a private confession of their sins to a priest, who claims the authority of God to pronounce pardon.

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

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

Living this way is naturally a private decision and something to be made known to a priest in confession.

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

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

In quiet hallways and private corners, I've made my confession to trusted friends.

On a plinth in the center of the room is the Alcoholics Anonymous bible known as «The Big Book,» surrounded by clandestine audio recordings of moral conflict, transgression and confession made during these ostensibly private and anonymous groups.