The nature of our sources may account for this silence : martyrs and confessors, through their sufferings, were purging themselves of their sins in this world.
But his words also imply the way in which a confessor would claim and assume office as presbyter or deacon.
Such open families are not necessarily female-dominated, but their fathers are often rendered strategically absent by the father confessor.
Friars were frequently confessors and the prayers of monks were thought to be particularly powerful.
He viewed me as somewhat of a confessor, a third party listener with whom he could share his thoughts.
The reprieves granted to confessors were the last decisions the court was allowed to make.
In both cases the confessors needed a bishop neither for their own ordination nor, if ordained, to give absolution.
Even confessors were exhorted to scrutinize the conscience of the sinner in confession as a physician scrutinizes wounds.
