sacramental absolution

In their personalized caring for people, they hear confessions, but cannot give sacramental absolution.

Peter and his descendants had the power to forgive sin, that is, give sacramental absolution in Penance.

He announced his joy of returning to the Catholic faith, asked for and received sacramental absolution, and participated in the mass.

This was the fifth statement written or signed by Cranmer; he himself spoke of it as a return to the Catholic faith, and asked for sacramental absolution.

His opinions on the "materia" for sacramental absolution, and on the "Copia confessariorum" seem opposed to the teaching of the council on these points.

The absolution of the dead does not forgive sins or confer the sacramental absolution of the Sacrament of Penance.

In this way, Luther in his Small Catechism could speak of the role of "a confessor" to confer sacramental absolution on a penitent.

Anyone who has the possibility of going to confession and is aware of having committed a mortal sin must not receive Holy Communion without first receiving sacramental absolution.

Finally on February 12, 1912 the Milwaukee archdiocese took the unprecedented step of declaring that anyone reading the Kuryer or the Dziennik Narodowy would be denied sacramental absolution for their sins.

The Church states that as long as the individual is capable of having a sense of contrition for having committed sin, even if he or she cannot describe the sin precisely in words, the person may receive sacramental absolution.

In the Church of England and in the Anglican Communion in general, formal, sacramental absolution is given to penitents in the sacrament of penance now formally called the Reconciliation of a Pentitent and colloquially called "confession."

Automatic (latae sententiae) interdict is incurred by anyone using physical violence against a bishop, as also by a person who, not being an ordained priest, attempts to celebrate Mass, or who, though unable to give valid sacramental absolution, attempts to do so, or hears a sacramental confession.