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  2. Catholic guilt - Wikipedia

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    Catholic guilt is described by Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin): "That's not how it works, Tracy. Even though there is the whole confession thing, that's no free pass, because there is a crushing guilt that comes with being a Catholic. Whether things are good or bad or you're simply... eating tacos in the park, there is always the crushing guilt ...

  3. List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church

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    Any cleric who wears multicoloured clothing not in keeping with his clerical status, whose clothes are not at least ankle-length, or any head of a cathedral, Catholic college or chaplain to a cardinal who fails to wear a head covering in public, or clerics who pay too much attention to their hair or beards, or clerics who use silk and velvet ...

  4. Sacrament of Penance - Wikipedia

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    The Sacrament of Penance [a] (also commonly called the Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession) is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church (known in Eastern Christianity as sacred mysteries), in which the faithful are absolved from sins committed after baptism and reconciled with the Christian community.

  5. Humor about Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    The protestants denounced and attacked Silesius, a Catholic mystic, for all types of heresy and depicted him as a peddler of potions, gambling cards, and other immoral behaviors. The Catholic Church has been a subject for humor, from the time of the Reformation to the present day.

  6. Seal of confession in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    However, the Catholic Church punishes with excommunication latae sententiae anyone who records by any technical means or divulges what is said by the confessor or penitent. [18] [20] There are limited cases where portions of a confession may be revealed to others, but always with the penitent's permission and never by revealing the penitent's ...

  7. Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary - Wikipedia

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    Binky is raised a Catholic and undergoes the religious indoctrination of nuns [11] at a strict Catholic parochial school that commonly employs corporal punishment. [12] He forms an image of a vengeful God, which fills him with feelings of fear and guilt.

  8. Discipline (instrument of penance) - Wikipedia

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    In the Bible, Saint Paul writes: [5] "I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified" (1 Corinthians 9:27 NRSV). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Christians who use the discipline do so as a means of partaking in the mortification of the flesh to aid in the process of sanctification ; [ 7 ] [ 8 ] they also ...

  9. Censure (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Confession penances are also considered vindictive punishments, as their primary purpose is to offer reparation for sins rather than reform the individual. Importantly, the irregularity arising from a crime is neither a censure nor a vindictive punishment; it is a canonical impediment that prevents individuals from fulfilling the sacred ...