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by bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Apostolic Penitentiary, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, confession, COVID-19 pandemic, general absolution, News, Vatican | 0 |
Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done in places seeing serious or increasing levels of coronavirus infections, a Vatican official said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 30, 2020 | Advent, Archbishop Hebda, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Christmas Eve Mass, Christmas Masses, COVID-19 pandemic, general absolution, Local News, Mass times, News, Pandemic | 0 |
Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis should keep a close eye on their parish bulletin or website this Advent season. Some parishes may add an earlier Mass on Christmas Eve and may add more Masses on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2020 | general absolution, Local News, News | 0 |
Priests in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis should make extra efforts to hear individual confessions during the pandemic, Archbishop Hebda told them in a March 20 letter. But if that becomes impossible, the archbishop has granted each priest who presently hears confessions in the archdiocese “the extraordinary permission to impart absolution to multiple persons without prior confession.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 22, 2020 | Baptism, Confirmation, Convert, Coronavirus, COVID-19, general absolution, Indulgences, lead, News, spiritual communion | 0 |
With increasing numbers of people confined at home with no access to Mass or confession, pastors everywhere, Pope Francis included, have turned to some little-known, or at least little-used, concepts and practices, including “spiritual communion,” indulgences and general absolution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 20, 2020 | Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, Featured, general absolution, indulgence, News, Plenary indulgence, U.S. & World News | 0 |
In places particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and with severe limits on people leaving their homes, conditions may exist to grant general absolution to the faithful without them personally confessing their sins first, the Vatican said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 20, 2020 | Apostolic Penitentiary, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, confession, Coronavirus, COVID-19, general absolution, News, Vatican | 0 |
In places particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and with severe limits on people leaving their homes, conditions may exist to grant general absolution to the faithful without them personally confessing their sins first, the Vatican said.
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