Sentences with phrase «priests hear confessions»

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Alabama's immigration law, still unsettled, «makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptize, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant,» as the Archbishop of Mobile, Thomas Rodi, said last year when he joined a suit against the law.

The priest will hear confession then let the criminal back out to do whatever it was he was doing previously.

If so, then the priest who heard the confession can not, and I repeat, can not tell another person.

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:

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:

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.

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.»

He has followed up this dialogue with concrete steps on his own initiative, such as giving Society priests faculties to hear confessions and witness marriage, despite their unusual canonical status.

Alabama's immigration law, still unsettled, «makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptise, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant,» as the Archbishop of Mobile, Thomas Rodi, said last year when he joined a suit against the law.

One of the key sacraments is Holy Orders since only the priest says Mass, hears confessions, confirms, ordains and annoints.

It is not that he is passing on your confession God can hear your confession anywhere, but the priest guides you towards how to spiritually reconcile the sins you have committed and how to atone through penance.

But as every sensitive person ought to know and as every councilor (and every priest who has «heard confessions») does know, man's root problem is not in these particular acts.

«In hearing confessions the priest is to remember that he is at once both judge and healer, and that he is constituted by God as a minister of both divine justice and divine mercy, so that he may contribute to the honour of God and the salvation of souls» (c. 978, s. 1).

But then I remember the feeling following confession and think how many confessions has a priest heard and the chances of him being shocked by my confession is not exactly high.

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.

Writer - director Ben Lewin brings on William H. Macy as a local priest who hears O'Brien's explicit confession, but it's a useless framing device, ostensibly affirming O'Brien's religious conviction but really there to earn titters from the audience over his naughty escapades.

Montgomery Clift plays a priest who hears a killer's confession, but because the sacrament of penance forbids him to speak, he remains silent.

The movie begins with Lavelle hearing a confession from an unseen man who says that for seven years, beginning at age five, he was raped by a priest, now dead, and that he'll take revenge by killing a «good priest» — Lavelle — in a week's time.