Confession, Seal of

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• Seal of Confession, the Law of the — • Let the priest who dares to make known the sins of his penitent be deposed.... Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Seal of the Confessional and the Anglican Church — The Seal of the Confessional is a principle of the Anglican Church that protects the words spoken during confession. Confession has certain censures on disclosure as there is an understanding among the clergy that there is an inviolable… …   Wikipedia

• Seal of the Confessional — This article concerns a doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church only. : For the similar principle in other denominations see Seal of the Confessional and the Anglican Church and Seal of the Confessional and the Lutheran Church. The Seal of… …   Wikipedia

• Confession — For other uses, see Confession (disambiguation). Confess redirects here. For other uses, see Confess (disambiguation). Confessing redirects here. For the evangelical protestant movement, see Confessing Movement. This article is for the religious… …   Wikipedia

• Seal of the Confessional and the Lutheran Church — The Seal of the Confessional is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that protects the words spoken during confession. A form of this principle survives in many modern Lutheran churches.The Roman Catholic priest and Protestant reformer Martin… …   Wikipedia

• Confession in the Lutheran Church — For general confession in the Lutheran Church, see Penitential Rite. Not to be confused with Church of the Lutheran Confession. Private Absolution ought to be retained in the churches, although in confession an enumeration of all sins is not… …   Wikipedia

• Seal (device) — A seal can mean a wax seal bearing an impressed figure, or an embossed figure in paper, with the purpose of authenticating a document, but the term can also mean any device for making such impressions or embossments, essentially being a mould… …   Wikipedia

• seal — seal1 noun 1》 a device or substance used to join two things together or render something impervious.     ↘the state or fact of being joined or rendered impervious with a seal. 2》 a piece of wax, lead, etc. with an individual design stamped into… …   English new terms dictionary

• seal of confession —  ; sacramental seal    This term (from the Latin sigillum, meaning small picture or seal, and confiteri, meaning to acknowledge ) refers to a confessor s obligation to keep absolutely secret whatever a penitent confesses as part of the sacrament… …   Glossary of theological terms

• the seal or the seal of the confessional — the obligation on a priest not to divulge anything said during confession. → seal …   English new terms dictionary