Sentences with phrase «sins of these priests»

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Forgiveness of sins only comes from Jesus, not from your daddy or from any priest.

I might personally disagree with ho.mos.exuality, however I think it's wrong to deny her communion, what if the priest told you that you couldn't partake in communion because of your sins?

Requirements of personal confession of sin, absolution by a priest, fasting, restoration of broken relationships, and the reading of a long cycle of prayers prior to participation in the Eucharist have discouraged frequent reception.

So if you went to one of these child molesting priests for confession, were your sins actually forgiven or does it not count because the Roman Catholic priest was a child molester?

No doubt this is mainly due to the Catholic Church's policy of keeping its sins secret by protecting them since the early Church policy of preventing priests from marrying.

Abuse exists, but decades and decades of hiding it, moving around pedophile priests, obfuscating, and stonewalling is the sin OF THE CHURCH, not of the individual priests who perpetrated the abusof hiding it, moving around pedophile priests, obfuscating, and stonewalling is the sin OF THE CHURCH, not of the individual priests who perpetrated the abusOF THE CHURCH, not of the individual priests who perpetrated the abusof the individual priests who perpetrated the abuse.

But more than 1.5 billion Orthodox and Catholics, 75 percent of Christendom, believe that Christ Himself gave the apostles, their successors and priests the ability to forgive sin on His behalf and His Church.

The priest stands in Persona Christi to absolve sins; anyone who is capable of confessing sins is capable of knowing that they can not be truly absolved if you retain them in your heart and expect to continue in them.

A priest can not absolve me of my sins and no number of Hail Mary's will give me redemption.

Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).

The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, excommunicating Galileo for saying the Earth revolved around the sun, forgiving sins for money through the selling of indulgences, pedophile priest, it's really not a pretty picture.

I have never asked a priest to «absolve» me of my sins, only that he show me the right path to the Lord.

I guess most priests feel that it is the desire to meet God in the sacrament, not the absence of sin, that makes the communicant «worthy» to receive.

I felt sorry for the priest having to sit hours on end through a drone of unoriginal sins.

The central theme of the Epistle to the Hebrews is that he was made like us in all respects save for our sin; he calls us his brothers; in our humanity he is exalted to the throne of God, a high priest who is able to sympathize with our weaknesses.

A special set was brought by the high priest on Yom Kippur to expiate the sins of the Jewish people.

Today, the bishops do not permit themselves even the possibility of granting mercy to a priest who has been accused of such a sin or committed it only once.

And He is for all time our active and present reconciliation and healing for sin and its effects in the here and now, on earth, through the hands of His priests as it is in Heaven through his unveiled presence before the Father.

Any one can confess their sins to a priest or even God and not repent from the depth of their hearts.

The priest was to lay his hands upon the scapegoat, symbolically passing all of Israel's sins upon the goat, and then the goat was to be sent away into the wilderness, where it (presumably) died, taking all the sins of Israel with it into the grave.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

You'd do well to look into the old ways of the «two» priests it required for the atonement of sin of the people — one for the inner court and one for the outer court, and the two animals — the spotless sacrificial lamb, and the scapegoat of whom the blood of that sacrificial lamb was placed and sent into the wilderness.

Now the magic words of some select priests make this former sin irrelevant?

The pope excuses and protects all catholic priests from being accountable for p & dophilia and r@pe, but everyone ELSE is guilty of sin if they commit such acts.

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.»

A woman can always be forgiven of this sin but in most cases she needs to go to a Bishop or priest who has been granted authority to lift the excommunication is all.

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.

The Catholic Church also uses John 20:23 to defend the practice of confessing sins to priests.

But other than that, they've become a den of sin — even their priests molest children, and they fell away from the teaching of Jesus and his apostles long ago, worshiping saints and images instead of the One to be worshiped and adored.

And the Passover is the feast of sacrifice and atonement, when the high priest from the Holy of Holies sends the lamb carrying the sins of the people to its death.

This is like REALLY WEIRD stories I have read that Catholics «supposedly» write their sins on a piece of paper and the priest burns them... sorry folks, doesn't happen that way either.

That's the priest's calling — to declare the absolution of sins.

The penitent Christian confesses one's sins to a priest or in community, regrets the evil, promises to sin no more, to avoid occasions of sin and make amends for the harm inflicted on others by the sins committed.

In proposing a way forward, the study rejects the primacy of place that is given to the therapeutic mentality because it fails to appreciate the role that religious devotion and faith play in the moral life of the priest, and has no proper understanding of human nature, original sin and free will.

No - one can forgive sins but God himself, and, through the ministry of his priests, that is exactly what Christ does to those who come to him in sorrow and repentance.

The priest acts in the person of Christ to forgive and also acts to represent those affected by the sin as often you can not seek forgiveness from the person (s) you actually offended.

The phrase puts me in mind of one particular priest who preaches of the dark ugliness of sin, but listens to your own transgressions with nothing but gentleness.

I understand that they remit temporal punishment due to my forgiven sins, if I die without performing the acts of penance a priest has imposed.

The expiation of sin achieved by Jesus» priestly sacrificial death on the cross is brought to fulfilment in the Eucharist of which Jesus is the heavenly high priest.

A priest whom Kennedy considers to be «fully developed» in psychological terms says that masturbation is not sinful, that he doesn't accept the «theory of mortal and venial sin», and that there is not much guilt or sinfulness associated with sexual misbehaviour.

Many of the traditional ascetical practices disappeared from the formation of priests in favour of promoting psychological «wholeness», achieving «psychosexual and affective maturity», meeting the «need for intimacy», «befriending your sexuality» and a number of other ambiguous ideals that could co-exist with what were previously considered mortal sins.

The letter to the Hebrews teaches that Christ is a unique high priest, not to be succeeded, whose offering of himself on the cross is sufficient offering, once and for all, for human sins (7.23 - 7; 10.11 - 12).

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

The priest warns her that even after Vatican II, adultery is considered a serious sin, and that if she were to sleep with Henry Mascall, she would be breaking one of the Ten Commandments and putting at risk the happiness of her husband and children.

«Like it or not, the archdiocese is canonically responsible for the financial care of a priest - even a priest who has committed such a horrible crime and sin such as clergy sexual abuse of a minor,» the statement said.

This Divine power of the forgiveness of sins given to the apostles and passed down to the bishops and priests of our day is a fundamental part of the life of Christ's Church.

For thousands of years the Church held it to be a sin for women to be priests.

The priests for instance who have not repented of their terrible sins of abuse will be in the deeper regions of hell.

Redemption applies to a man qua man, not qua priest, and it implies that God, who wills all men to be saved, offers the grace of repentance to all men, no matter how grievous their sins.

Hebrews 2:17 «17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.»