{"id":8560,"date":"2003-02-13T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/13\/bishop-clamps-down-on-group-absolution\/"},"modified":"2003-02-13T14:34:34","modified_gmt":"2003-02-13T19:34:34","slug":"bishop-clamps-down-on-group-absolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/bishop-clamps-down-on-group-absolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop clamps down on group absolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais has clamped down on  what the Pope says has become an all-too-common practice: the abandonment of   individual confessions in favour of group absolution.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">In a letter to the archdiocese&#8217;s clergy and faithful,<br \/>\nthe archbishop said John Paul II &quot;insists that general absolution should<br \/>\nbe restored to its original purpose as an extraordinary means of receiving absolution<br \/>\n(of sins).&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Archbishop Gervais is just one of several Canadian bishops<br \/>\ntrying to curb the trend toward overuse of general absolution.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">However, that doesn&#8217;t mean an end to communal reconciliation<br \/>\nservices, followed by individual confessions, he said. Archbishop Gervais said<br \/>\nhe wants to encourage these communal services<\/font>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawa\/ottawacitizen\/story.asp?id=A9DBF117-71BE-48FE-9F56-AB7D82A655AC\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Good for him. It has been amazing how everything that was extraordinary became<br \/>\nordinary such as Extraordinary Eucharist Ministers and those things that were<br \/>\nordinary such as individual confession has became extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais has clamped down on what the Pope says has become an all-too-common practice: the abandonment of individual confessions in favour of group absolution. In a letter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}