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Roman Catholic council, met 1962 to 1965
The Church has changed how the sacrament of confession (now often called “penance” or “reconciliation”) is celebrated and presented since Vatican II, including a revised Order of Penance in the 1970s ...
Scholars, religious leaders and institutions disagree: many sources say Muslims and Christians address the same transcendent one God of Abraham, while others insist the two faiths conceive of God so d...
Catholic sacramental confession developed over many centuries from public penitential practices in the early Church into private, priestly auricular confession made normative by the 12th–13th centurie...
Papal dispensations are a long-established tool by which the pope (or those he delegates) can exempt persons from particular ecclesiastical laws; historically this covered marriage impediments, celiba...
The Second Vatican Council prompted a deliberate reimagining of the sacrament of penance that produced three post‑conciliar pastoral innovations — communal penitential services emphasizing the communi...
Catholic social teaching (CST) centers on human dignity as its foundational claim and is commonly summarized either as a four‑part core (dignity, common good, solidarity, subsidiarity) per the Compend...
Parishes use multiple pastoral approaches to draw people who avoid private confession back into reconciliation: communal reconciliation services that combine public prayer with private confession, ext...