auricular confession

Historically, the practice of auricular confession was originally a highly controversial one within Anglicanism.

The practice of auricular confession and obtaining absolution from the priests was abolished.

In 1169 a new controversy, about the use of auricular confession severed the once friendly relations between the two communions.

"He reprobates auricular confession, and believes not that the voluntarily taken vows of celibacy are binding."

Four disputed issues were left undecided: veneration of the saints, private masses, auricular confession, and transubstantiation.

Auricular confession was discontinued.

Abolished auricular confession.

Private or auricular confession is also practiced by Anglicans and is especially common among Anglo-Catholics.

He rejected auricular confession, objected to pilgrimages and indulgences, and opposed the claims of the hierarchy as excessive.

In a later sermon 'On the Honour of the Cnristian Priesthood' he disavowed a belief in auricular confession.

He therefore strove hard for the abolition of auricular confession, prayers for the dead, invocation of saints, and unhealthy veneration of sacraments.

Auricular confession, in its mature form, was probably a byproduct of the conversion of the Germanic tribes; it was established much more slowly in southern Europe.

They discovered '.a spacious vault walled about and arched over with stones having on the sides thereof two stone seats not unlike those in churches for auricular confession.

He testified for his belief in salvation through Christ as the only mediator, and condemned the doctrines of the mass, auricular confession, purgatory and prayers to the saints.

This work also led him into the controversial area of auricular confession, and in 1865, the book, The Doctrine of Confession in the Church of England.

They affirmed the conservative interpretation of doctrines such as the real presence, clerical celibacy, and the necessity of auricular confession, the private confession of sins to a priest.

Here the question of private confession, which was confused with auricular confession, led to opposition, but the organization of the State Church, firmly established under Harless, finally achieved a victory.

He destroys the convents, and yet commands that vows of chastity, spoken by man or woman, must be faithfully kept; and lastly, auricular confession is still a necessary constituent of his Church.

In addition to his inquisitorial duties, every year witnessed the publication of one or more writings against iconoclasm and in defense of the doctrines of the Mass, purgatory, and auricular confession.

Auricular confession as a standard, and as a sacrament, developed pari passu with papal and clericalist theory in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, and was clearly connected with them.

The Statute of the Six Articles, passed in 1540, declared that "auricular confession is expedient and necessary to be retained and continued, used and frequented in the Church of God".

Others proved unstable: the German pietist group, under George Rapp, which settled at Harmony, Pennsylvania in 1804, practised auricular confession, opposed procreation and marriage, and contrived to dogmatize itself out of existence.

The Council of Paris, 1198, published the first Synodical code of instructions for confessors; and at the Lateran Council in 1216 Innocent in made auricular confession compulsory for all adult Christians.

Assemani's arguments (ibid., cclxxxvi-viii) for a belief in Penance as a Sacrament among the ancient Nestorians or for the practice of auricular confession among the Malabar Nestorians are not conclusive.

If once they could be brought to renounce the supremacy of the pope, they might quietly enjoy their seven sacraments, their purgatory, and auricular confession; their worship of relics and images; nay even their transubstantiation.