Or if he hears a person's confession, that person is not really receiving absolution of sins."

It is said that the Bishop of York granted absolution of sins to local residents in return for building the bridge.

Without paying the attendant, he rushed off to Bellingham (some forty-miles away) in order to see his priest for a last-minute absolution of sins.

Symeon's teachings on the hearing of confession and the absolution of sins brought him into regular conflict with church authorities, particularly Archbishop Stephen.

It includes penitence for sin committed, but at the same time faith in the gospel as the absolution of sins (these being the teachings of Martin Luther).

They refer to past and future lives, absolution of sins, the lessening of evil and the hope that the poison will 'purify' the woman's flesh and spirit.

He charged Christians to take up the holy cause, promising to all those who went absolution of sins and to all who died in the expedition immediate entry into heaven.

"If it is not God's will that he should recover, then he is given absolution of sins, and we commend him to God, that his soul may depart in peace."

And just as sin deeply touches the individual conscience, so we understand why the absolution of sins must be individual and not collective, except in extraordinary circumstances as approved by the Church.

Symeon believed that direct experience gave monks the authority to preach and give absolution of sins, without the need for formal ordination-as practiced by his own teacher, Symeon the Studite.

Penitents gain the absolution of sins by participating in the sacrament confession, where sins are confessed in the presence of a priest in order to gain absolution.

Archbishop Hunthausen came under investigation over the granting of annulments and general absolution of sins, intercommunion with Protestants and the opening of churches to meetings by homosexual Catholics.

Many Christians view the entire chapter, and particularly this passage to refer to the Passion of Christ as well as the absolution of sins believed to be made possible by his sacrificial death.

According to Lanfranc's Constitutions a written absolution of sins would be placed on the chest of a dead monk in their tomb, while an inscribed lead cross served a similar purpose for prelates.

Several weeks later, at the feast of Epiphany, Julian celebrated another solemn Mass presided over jointly by the bishops of Vienne, Sens, and Paris, and arranged for a general absolution of sins, for which all those in attendance thanked him profusely.