What lay chaplains cannot do is say Mass, anoint the sick, and absolve sin after confession. |
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On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation. |
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These answers are interchangeable and, what is more important, absolve both rulers and subjects from facing reality and taking responsibility. |
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But the possibility that apathy may subvert anarchy does not absolve its inciters from responsibility. |
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To reject giving a child a jab in favour of chancing it with the disease is to absolve oneself of responsibility. |
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Galileo would not absolve them from blame for resorting to power when reason went against them. |
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The capacity of history to absolve political actors is a cynical and immoral doctrine. |
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The fact that you were a woman did not absolve you from keeping to the ideals of chivalry, in times of crisis and in your ordinary life. |
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At the same time, the right to free speech does not absolve us from our duty to behave responsibly. |
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Mr. Speaker, the fact that this case is being litigated does not absolve the government of its responsibility to follow the law. |
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Judicial leadership does not absolve other players of their responsibility to contribute to an effective justice system. |
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We cannot absolve ourselves of the responsibility to develop specific, creative and appropriate responses to reality. |
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Mere doubts or assumptions about their effectiveness do not absolve the authors from exhausting them. |
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Delegation of a function to a subcommittee does not absolve the IRC from its responsibility for the function. |
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But the intractability of the problem does not absolve us of the responsibility to engage in its resolution. |
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The promotion of peace, justice and the integrity of creation cannot absolve itself of a concern for the right to life. |
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Subsequently, the young defender was surrounded by congratulators, all in amber, but Arthur can't absolve himself of the fact that he could have done better there. |
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However, it is not a magic potion which will absolve us of the need to pursue appropriate economic policies. |
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Ignorance does not absolve you from the rule of law you know. |
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I've recently learned that I will soon be leaving this world, so I must absolve my sins in the short time I have remaining in order to gain my acceptance into Heaven. |
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In his latest assay, my esteemed colleague seeks to absolve government from any significant responsibility for the meltdown. |
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Withdrawal does not absolve a State of any violation of the Treaty that was committed while still a party to the Treaty. |
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Men stop going in search of a confessor to absolve them of their faults, because they find it undignified. |
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We should not use excuses to absolve ourselves of the responsibility of negotiating an international instrument that the world wants and needs. |
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The European Court accepts that certain circumstances leading to an exceptional overload of the courts may absolve the state of responsibility. |
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The most sought-after of these confessors are the penitentiaries who have power to absolve from censures or from sins reserved to the pope. |
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Consequently, their lack of involvement in the affairs of the company may not absolve them from liability. |
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So while I would love to lay all the failings of the movie at her incredibly hacky feet, it wouldn't be fair to absolve him of the role he played in botching the movie. |
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It did not completely absolve itself of blame, however, admitting that its rapid expansion and consequent dependence on increases in demand contributed to the problems. |
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Many were just eager to forget, absolve, or overlook serious accusations, simply because doing so would be hugely convenient. |
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Will they absolve him of stealing papal documents and leaking them to the press, and let him go? |
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Similar reservations will no doubt surface in the coming months, as countries endeavor to absolve their own aggressive actions from the court's jurisdiction. |
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So I hereby absolve myself of guilt should he ever read this. |
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Assuming for the sake of argument that this is a valid justification for the delay involved, it would not absolve Malaysia from supplying proof of the damage alleged. |
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Although children may seem to know so much more about the internet than their parents, it does not absolve the latter fom their responsibilities toward their charges. |
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Yet the essay does not absolve the Left from paranoid thinking. |
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It should be noted that IOM's protection role and activities in no way absolve States from their duty to ensure effective respect of the human rights of migrants. |
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No one can absolve you of your sins if you don't believe it in your heart, and I honestly don't believe there's any amount of good I can do in my life that'll absolve me of his death. |
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On the one hand, he is trying to absolve Skyler of his sins. |
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An economically difficult situation does not absolve the public investor from acting as reasonably as a private investor in the same situation would have done. |
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Neither the Commission nor the Member States will be able to absolve themselves of responsibility, certainly not by passing the buck from one to the other. |
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States and parties cannot absolve themselves of responsibility in these areas by delegating or transferring these powers to private sector agencies. |
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Confessors belonging to a mendicant Order or to certain modern religious Congregations enjoy, by privilege, the faculty to absolve only for the censure regarding abortion. |
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Persons who had signed confessions might wish to absolve themselves of responsibility by making false allegations against the police or other detaining or interrogating authorities. |
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But there are risks because the VCSP does not absolve an employer of potential liability for misclassification under the FLSA or other laws. |
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It is clear that this locution serves to absolve the culprit, at least in his own mind, from responsibility for the act. |
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