[2RY] Does The Covid-19 Pandemic Authorize The Derogation From The Canonical Rule Of Absolution Necessarily Preceded By Individual Confession?
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[2RY] Does The Covid-19 Pandemic Authorize The Derogation From The Canonical Rule Of Absolution Necessarily Preceded By Individual Confession?
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Sacrament of confession, when COVID-adapted
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Canon 961, § 2, therefore, refers the decision back to the diocesan bishops, in which two lines of thought can be identified: on the one hand, in fact, there were many bishops and archbishops who made use of this faculty by declaring the state of total global general emergency, and by granting the priests the power to administer the general absolution, and it appears worth noting that it is a matter of circumstances that are not geographically circumscribed:
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2022-12-16
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Stefano Testa Bappenheim