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Why wasn't Origen, the most prolific writer of Christian antiquity, canonized?
Karl Keating
Why didn't Jesus' preaching and miracles convince more Jews to follow him?
Catholic Answers Staff
Were Catholic doctrines such as purgatory and papal primacy really universal in the early Church?
Catholic Answers Staff
When was the Church first called "Catholic"?
Karl Keating
If Jesus was a Jew, why are we Catholic?
Catholic Answers Staff
Are there surviving non-Catholic Christian groups that date from the first century A.D.?
Catholic Answers Staff
Who were the Church Fathers?
Catholic Answers Staff
Since we have God's written word, why so much emphasis on oral tradition?
Catholic Answers Staff
When did the custom of canonizing saints start, and is it true that canonizations are infallible?
Catholic Answers Staff
Should we stand or kneel at Mass?
Jason Evert

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"In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance]."

~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.