Sentences with phrase «sacrament of confession»

As I watched, I found myself thinking about how the Church, with the age - old sacrament of confession and the tradition of corporate lament, is equipped to speak powerfully and counter-culturally to this very issue.

The great weight of authority, scripture and tradition substantiate the sacrament of confession.

For me he prescribed the sacrament of confession; I jokingly suggested that I book one of his free afternoons.

A central plank of Garnet's legal defense was that, although he was made aware of the Gunpowder Plot beforehand, he could not have done anything to stop it because he learnt about it only during the sacrament of confession.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us, «the Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God's mercy to sinners,» and for many Catholics over the centuries the sacrament of confession has been the means through which God's mercy is most viscerally conveyed to them at the moments during their lives when they are the most vulnerable.

«All the priests that are administering the sacrament of confession during World Youth Day have the general authority to give absolution from the penalty of excommunication for abortion if someone comes to confession... if someone has this need,» Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told CNN on Thursday, referring to the event that brought Pope Benedict XVI to Madrid on Thursday for a four - day visit.

The analogy to the sacrament of confession is clear.

At first it seems baffling that the sacrament of confession can be inverted to serve the ends of advocacy.

Priests decide on disagreements over dogma, administer God's forgiveness of sins through the sacrament of confession, and institute the Eucharist at Mass — some of the most important Church activities.

Many Christians view the sacrament of confession as hocus - pocus and, instead, try to annihilate guilt through the therapeutic process.

Sometimes Catholics have misunderstood the sacrament of confession as a license to repeat their misdeeds, since one can always confess again.

This lesson explores the sacrament of confession.