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19th Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s biblical canon is substantially larger and differently composed than the Roman Catholic canon: , including the Hebrew protocanon, the Catholic deuterocanonical...
Martin Luther excluded certain books—primarily the seven Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament and questioned a few New Testament books—from the core Protestant canon because he prioritized text...
No pope in Catholic history has abolished the requirement that Catholics confess serious sins sacramentally; canonical and conciliar texts repeatedly affirm the obligation while practice and enforceme...
The Eastern Orthodox Bible differs from the Protestant Bible primarily in its Old Testament contents: Orthodox churches accept the broader Septuagint-derived "longer canon" (including books Protestant...
The Catholic Church teaches that the Sacrament of Penance (confession or reconciliation) was instituted by Jesus Christ and has been practiced in some form since the apostolic era; Trent and modern Ca...
The 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church reaffirms confession as the ordinary means for reconciliation, spelling out the penitent’s acts (contrition, confession, satisfaction) and restating the annua...
The obligation for Roman Catholics to make private, auricular confession to a priest was , which imposed an annual private confession requirement and strengthened the confessional seal; this formaliza...
Martin Luther relocated the books later called the deuterocanonical books into an intertestamental “Apocrypha” section and described them as useful but not equal to Holy Scripture, prompting sharp pus...