Sentence examples for individual confession from inspiring English sources

Cardinal Ratzinger and others complained about the trend in some countries toward group rather than individual confession.

The pope's letter said general absolutions were for use only in "grave necessity," when an individual confession is not possible.

Because they required exclusive allegiance through an individual confession of faith in a just and judging deity, they are called confessional religions.

Individual confessions like Liu's are still rare, but they have multiplied in recent years.

Both tendencies stand in a constant inner tension with one another in the main branches of the Reformation and within the individual confessions as well.

i.e. attending masses and other religious activities, individual prayer, confession, meetings with a spiritual father, doing their cross, visiting monasteries, serving the poor, becoming a godfather or mother, following the major feasts, and so on.

The interrogator is also a kind of writer: he is compiling the biographies of the individuals whose confessions he obtains, people who are electroshocked into harmlessness when their stories have been extracted.

Individuals without religious confession were more likely to accept EUT (and WLPT), whereas no significant differences were found in this regard between rejecting both forms and approving solely WLPT.

In others, police tortured individuals to force a "confession" for a crime they did not commit.

Truffaut had used a full, professional crew and a well-turned script, co-written with the screenwriter Marcel Moussy, and had fulfilled his own promise that the new French cinema would be "even more personal than a novel, as individual and autobiographical as a confession or an intimate journal".

A conviction, positive drug test, or confession only prohibits individuals from buying guns if it occurred in the past year.