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For example, in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Cardinal Justin Rigali established a program for clergy sentenced to lifetime of prayer and penance that prohibits them from celebrating Mass publicly, administering sacraments, wearing clerical garb, or presenting themselves as priests; and they are monitored full-time by a former probation ...
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that a priest may be compelled to testify about what he was told in the confessional regarding a particular sexual abuse case, leaving the priest at risk of excommunication if he even confirms that a confession took place, or jail for contempt of court should he refuse to testify. [21]
The Norbertine rite ("Norbertine" is another name for the Premonstratensians) differs from the Roman Rite in the celebration of Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours and the administration of the Sacrament of Penance. Its liturgical books were reprinted by order of the general chapter held at Prémontré in 1738. A new edition of the Missal and the ...
Terry Michael Ratzmann (April 29, 1960 – March 12, 2005) [1] was an American mass murderer who killed seven members of a Living Church of God (LCG) church congregation at a Sheraton Hotel in 2005 in a religious hate crime [2], in Brookfield, Wisconsin, before committing suicide. Prior to the shooting, he had been a member of the church.
In the East, the prominent feature of penance was not the practice of mortification and pious works, though this was supposed; the penance imposed on sinners was a longer or shorter period of exclusion from communion and the Mass, to which they were gradually admitted to the different penitential "stations" or classes, three in number; for the ...
Catholic Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez, center left, and Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi take part in a Mass in memory of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez at the main plaza in San ...
Every priest can administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick validly. The duty and the right to administer it pertains to the priest to whom the spiritual care of the person concerned is entrusted. However, any other priest may administer it instead for a good reason if he has the presumed consent of the priest who has the duty and right ...
A Pennsylvania man who tried to shoot a pastor during a sermon that was being livestreamed earlier this week has been additionally charged with homicide, accused of fatally shooting his cousin the ...