Tag: confession
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Confession: Avant de Skier?
JP MISHEFF — French priest offers confession on ski lift. No kidding!
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Professing Black Lives Matter
I grew up in a Lutheran church. We professed our faith by saying confessions and creeds. I am a Presbyterian now. We profess our faith through confessions and creeds too. I am also a professor. What do I profess as one who teaches in higher education? TO PROFESS The word “profess” comes from the Latin…
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Catholic teens and sacramental reconciliation in U.S. Catholic
Robert Nugent argues that for teens to appreciate the value of sacramental confession, we need to clearly ritualize its connection to the larger community and engage their sense of sin as injuring relationships, rather that disobeying individual (often half-understood) laws.
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Book Review: Making Confession, Hearing Confession by Annemarie S. Kidder
Whatever happened to private confession? According to Annemarie Kidder’s recent book, Making Confession, Hearing Confession: A History of the Cure of Souls, it simply moved out of church.