If so, then the priest
who heard the confession can not, and I repeat, can not tell another person.
One
who hears confessions may regard them as routine.
For his part Father Tommasso,
who hears confessions and metes out predictable punishments (say 10 Hail Marys, etc.), is himself involved with Sister Marea (Molly Shannon), the Mother Superior.
Not exact matches
While in Brazil, the pope will visit one of the world's biggest shrines to the Virgin Mary,
who is revered here; visit a hospital for recovering drug addicts;
hear confessions from juvenile prisoners; and visit a slum known as a favela.
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.»
Matthew begins this chapter with a startling and sad
confession: «I am far from the only gay Christian
who has
heard the claim that gay people will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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.
Only those
who confess should
hear confessions, thus keeping
confession from becoming mere form or routine.
He or she must be someone
who,
hearing the full
confession of our weakness and accepting it, is likely to become the vehicle for our
hearing Christ say, «Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.»
Any minister
who, like the writer, has
heard many «
confessions» of sin, made formally or informally by parishioners and friends, will be able to testify to the danger just noted.
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.
It is refreshing to «
hear your
confession», and to know that there is a worldwide growing community of believers
who are just as passionate and hungry for rightness as they ever were, but not as dogmatic or ungracious as we now realize we were in our teens, twenties, thirties, forties & even fifties.
And when these brothers and sisters had been bound, the husband of one of them
who had
heard their
confession approached them and said to them, «Do not be afraid, for it will be a good thing for you to die for such a cause».
I've
heard it in the late - night
confessions of friends,
who lean in close to whisper the ultimate taboo: «If I could do it over, I wouldn't have them.»
The source
who disclosed to us what transpired on that faithful monday, also asked us to come to the church on Sunday (25th September) to
hear his
confession as he would be made to tell the story of how he got his money from the underworld.
Madge's message harkens back to Tina Fey's New Yorker piece «
Confessions of a Juggler,» in which she wrote: «I have a suspicion — and
hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of «crazy» in show business is a woman
who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.»
Personal
Confessions, a new line on the market, is just as it sounds, a line to call to divulge your deepest secrets with singles in your area
who are ready to
hear whatever it is you have to say.
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.
One might not expect to
hear such a
confession from a figure like David Gregory, the NBC newsman
who moderated «Meet the Press» and served as the White House correspondent during the second Bush administration.
These benefits can go to accomplices, reluctant witnesses, or the most insidious type of witness — jailhouse informants like Carter
who claim to
hear confessions and whose testimony usually can not be verified.