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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...
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...
Since has oscillated between a strict doctrinal line that bars divorced-and-remarried Catholics from and a more pastoral, case-by-case approach championed by ; the result is a patchwork of episcopal i...
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...
The term likely intended is "," a post– traditionalist Catholic position asserting that the papal see is effectively vacant because recent popes have espoused heresy and therefore lack legitimate auth...
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...