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  2. Sacrament of Penance - Wikipedia

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    The Sacrament of Penance [a] (also commonly called the Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession) is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church (known in Eastern Christianity as sacred mysteries), in which the faithful are absolved from sins committed after baptism and reconciled with the Christian community.

  3. Seal of confession in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    For example, he could choose to mention "I've heard the confession of a sex offender", or "I've almost never heard anyone explicitly confess a failure to help the poor." However, the Catholic Church punishes with excommunication latae sententiae anyone who records by any technical means or divulges what is said by the confessor or penitent. [18 ...

  4. Four Daughters of God - Wikipedia

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    Justice and Truth appear for the prosecution, representing the old Law, while Mercy speaks for the defense, and Peace presides over their reconciliation when Mercy prevails. [ 1 ] : 290 However, some versions (notably Robert Grosseteste's Chasteu d'amour , the Cursor Mundi , the English Gesta Romanorum , and The Court of Sapience )

  5. List of truth and reconciliation commissions - Wikipedia

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    Truth and Reconciliation Commission. On April 29, 2009, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was launched by the Government of the Solomon Islands. Its aim would be to "address people’s traumatic experiences during the five year ethnic conflict on Guadalcanal (1999–2003)". It is modelled on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South ...

  6. Reconciliation theology - Wikipedia

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    Reconciliation theology or the theology of reconciliation raises crucial theological questions about how reconciliation can be brought into regions of political conflict. [1] The term differs from the conventional theological understanding of reconciliation , but likewise emphasises themes of justice, truth, forgiveness and repentance.

  7. Catholic theology - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church believes it is the continuation of those who remained faithful to the apostolic leadership and rejected false teachings. [168] Catholic belief is that the Church will never defect from the truth, and bases this on Jesus' telling Peter "the gates of hell will not prevail against" the Church. [169]

  8. Regina Mundi Catholic Church (Soweto) - Wikipedia

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    Both the interior and the external walls of the church still bear the signs of the shootings. [3] After the end of apartheid, from 1995 to 1998, several meetings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission were held in the church, presided over by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. [3] From 1995 on, funds were raised to restore the church.

  9. East–West Schism - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church's current official teachings about papal privilege and power that are unacceptable to the Eastern Orthodox churches are the dogma of the pope's infallibility when speaking officially "from the chair of Peter (ex cathedra Petri)" on matters of faith and morals to be held by the whole Church, so that such definitions are ...