Confessors

The Jesuit order, in fact, is known to have a remarkably high percentage of homosexual members, making it unsurprising that Father Martin has had gay priests as superiors, confessors, mentors, teachers, and spiritual directors.

By the fourth century, however, " confessors "—people who had confessed their faith not by dying but by word and life—began to be venerated publicly.

Consequently I here follow the Egyptian confessors who share your faith, and anchor my frail craft under the shadow of their great argosies.

De Rossi also found a list of martyrs and confessors who were buried at St. Callistus', which contained Urban's name.

Paul VI himself, in the end, urged confessors to be very merciful and pay attention to concrete situations.

She was granted the ability to appoint her own vicar-general, select and approve the confessors, along with the practice of receiving the public homage of her clergy.

Suspects Since 1971 the FBI has processed over a thousand "serious suspects" along with assorted publicity seekers and deathbed confessors, most of whom have been definitively ruled out.

Toward this end he moved the royal court from Kraków to Warsaw and oversaw the arrival of the Jesuits who established new schools throughout Poland and became chaplains and confessors to many families.