The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-09

Why is it that Catholic woman is
not allowed to enter the church with
out covering on her head unless she
has permission to do SO? Is it merely
a custom or is 1T out of respect for
Our Lord?
A woman is not allowed to enter
the church with uncovered head be-
cause of prohibition given by st.
Paul in his first Epistle to the Corin-
thians wherein he declares that,
Every woman praying or prophesying
with her head not covered, disgraces
her head. Therefore ought
the woman to have power (that is,
a veil or covering) over her head be-
cause of the angels. You
yourself judge: doth it become
woman, to pray unto God uncovered?"
On this statement of St. Paul is based
the traditional custom of not allowing
women to euter a church with uncov
cred heads.
I. Are the words of absoIution al
ways pronounced aloud so that the
penitent may hear them? If it be pos
sibIe that priest would forget to give
dissolution, what would the state of a
persons soul be after such confes-
sion? 2. Would the following be a
bad confessions: after the recital OF
his sins q penitent in reply to the
confessor's inquiry, as that aIl?" an
swers, "Yes," while he knew that
there was some sins that trouble him,
yet not remembering distinctly any
particular sin. The answer was given
Immediately partly because the peni-
tent did not want to remember any
more of his sins for that confession
through human respect and partly be-
cause it was natural to reply at once.
3. Would the day on which sin was
committed increase or lessen it's ma
lice so that it would have to be speci-
fled, reference being made to Sunday
or week day? q. If one tells sin
and forgets to tell the number of times
committed does it have to be COM
p!eted in the next confession? 5. If
OI'C OIN IOk ACIt q JNSS @S nv
thought about it before entering the
confessional, through mistake or ex-
citement, may he leave it go with that
one effort? 6. How may an injured
reputation he restored when the per-
sons who heard the uncharitabte con-
versation are not present, or, If they
be, the guilty one has no occasion to
bring up the subject again?
!. 1t is not necessary that the
words of dissolution be pronounced by
the priest in such a way as to be
heard by tnc penitent. At the time
the priest pronounces these words the
penitent should be engaged in making
a sincere act of contrition and not in
trying to hear what the priest is say
ing. In case a priest forgets to give
dissolution, which is not at all proba-
BILE, the sins confessed are not for
given. The dissolution of the priest is
essential for the remission of sins
in the Sacrament of Penance and,
therefore, unless the words of abso-
luton be pronounced, there can be
no remission of sin. If penitent
knows that he has not received abso-
luton for sins confessed then it is
necessary for him to confess them
again. e 1t would be a bad confess
sion if the penitent knowingly con-
cealed a grievous sin. Nor would the
penitent be held guiltless if his con-
fession was defective through want of
proper examination or through feel
ing of human respect which prevented
him from continuing an examination
of conscience which he felt would
result in bringing other serious sins
to light. The fact that he answered
at once would not affect the validity
of the confession; but the fact that
he did not want to remember any
more sins, because of human respect,
would indicate that he was in bad
faith when he replied in the affirma-
tive. Under these circumstances it
would be we'll to repeat the confess
sion, adding to the previous enumera-
ton of sins those which were con-
cealed through human respect in this
confession and the fact that they had
been concealed. 8. The day on which
a sin is committed does not affect its
malice 4. 1t is necessary to tell, ap-
proximately at least, the number OF
times one has committed a sin. If
one fails notably in this regard, by
minimizing the number of times he
committed a certain sin, he must sup
ply this defect in subsequent con-
fession. 5. It is necessary to men
ton not only the specific kind of sin
but the circumstances that change its
nature, and if one, through excitement
or a mistake, fails to do this in con-
fession he must rectify the error in
his next confession. 6. When one
has seriously injured another's repu-
tation there is a grave obligation to
restore it as far as possible and to
make PREPARATION for all other damage
which the injured party suffered as a