Assertion: confession | /r/HasProperty | heard
Facets:
value: outside of a confessional
type: LOCATION
value: elsewhere than
type: OTHER
value: except for a just cause
type: CAUSE
value: regularly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: We go to church at the time when confessions are regularly heard, enter the confessional and tell the priest our sins, indicate that we are penitent and intend to try to avoid committing them again, and receive absolution from the priest.
text: It would not be unreasonable, in such a situation, for the priest to decline and tell the person to come to church at the regular time when confessions are heard (something that was discussed in greater detail in “
text: Another paragraph of the same canon, however, adds that confessions are not to be heard elsewhere than in a confessional, except for a just cause (c. 964.3).
text: Dr. Gibson cites a constitution of Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (1378), ordering confessions to be heard three times a year, and that whoever would not confess at least once a year should be prevented from entering a church while living and should not receive Christian burial when dead: and this order was to be published frequently in the churches.
text: Confessions are properly and typically heard in a church or oratory, according to Canon 964, unless there is a very good reason confessions are not to be heard outside of a confessional.