| His confessors told him that he would die in a state of sin because of his treatment of his ex-Queen, who was now living in Constantinople. |
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| Among regular clergy, the orders of friars retained a slightly double-edged esteem among the laity as skilled confessors and dramatic preachers. |
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| However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day. |
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| I can recall talk among my workmates about confession and confessors at a time when most of us were courting. |
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| They are diarists, confessors, intimate chroniclers of their slightly repugnant lives. |
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| Many diocesan clergy and faithful seek out members of consecrated life as confessors and spiritual guides. |
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| We must be close to them, able to be with them as friends and fathers, confidants and confessors. |
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| They stated further that most of the prosecution witnesses were members of village guards, made up of confessors. |
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| He wrote various works for the guidance of confessors and canonists, and in art he is pictured holding a key, the symbol of confession. |
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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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| Yes, confessors must be merciful and full of empathy with these people, but their job doesn't stop there! |
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| Holy Church remembers him forever as a model of confessors and as a champion of law and order. |
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| They can confess in Latin and they can easily find confessors who speak French, English, German or even Catalan and Breton. |
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| The Sacrament of reconciliation will be available in both Nurney and Kildangan churches on Sunday next Palm Sunday from 3-5 pm when visiting confessors will be present. |
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| He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins. |
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| Judges rarely render even highly suspicious confessions inadmissible, and juries often convict confessors, even in the absence of physical evidence. |
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| Mr Hague was obliged to defend the confessors and praise their honesty. |
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| With regard to the sacrament of penance the spirit is one of encouragement both for penitents and confessors and avoids both extremes of laxity and rigorism. |
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| You will find them surely among confessors who are reputed for their judgement and their holiness, seminary directors, novice masters and exorcists. |
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| Only confessors and those who had not apostatized would be considered in the communion of the Church. |
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| The mission of the Blessed Sr. Mary Faustina was recorded in her Diary which she kept at the specific request of the Lord Jesus and her confessors. |
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| This Vademecum traces its origin to the particular pastoral sensitivity of the Holy Father, who has entrusted the task of preparing this aid for confessors to the Pontifical Council for the Family. |
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| The court, the nobility, and, above all, the clergy and the king's confessors remained caught in the now-hardening tradition of Spanish imperialism, simplistically interpreted as the cause of God. |
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| Becoming preachers and confessors, they also secured chaplaincies, inspectorships, and professorships as their initiatives in piety, probity, and learning were recognized. |
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| Notebooks and handbooks became more common, describing how to be good priests and confessors. |
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| The Jesuits became preachers, confessors to monarchs and princes, and humanist educators. |
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| Spanish and Spanish-inclined Jesuits were confessors at the courts of the Austrian Habsburgs, Poland, Bavaria, and some of the minor German and Italian princes. |
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| This difficulty is recognized in deep sympathy and is shared by bishops and priests as counselors and confessors in their service of the faithful. |
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| Immediately we see that tenacity can be a positive quality, something martyrs and confessors had, something laudable in any believer and eminently desirable in a priest. |
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| It can happen that in the face of complex contemporary ethical problems the faithful leave the confessional with somewhat confused ideas, especially if they find that confessors are not consistent in their judgments. |
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| No martyr is in the list, since the Office and the Mass are for Confessors. |
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