Sentences with phrase «tell penitents»
And while rebuking the harsh legalism of certain clergy, he has also warned against «loose ministers» of the Gospel who tell penitents «this is not a sin» when it is.
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When he was up for parole, he struck a penitent note, telling the New York State parole panel, «It was greed, pure and simple.»
I'm told I'm angry and throwing stones at a house and people I willingly abandoned and that I need to grow up, return penitent, or finally leave and shut up.
If no penitents came, he remained near his confessional, reading, saying office or telling his beads.
I'm told I'm angrily throwing stones at a house and people I willingly abandoned and that I need to grow up, return penitent, or finally leave and shut up.
The «priest - penitent privilege» or the «seal of the confessional» is a recognition in law of the confidentiality of anything told to a priest in the practice of individual auricular confession of sins, considered a sacrament in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox branches of Christianity.
«It is essential to understand well the sacrament of penitence requires the personal dialogue between the penitent and the confessor and the absolution by the confessor,» Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters on Wednesday.