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Who are the Rosicrucians, what do they believe, and why do they believe it?
Catholic Answers Staff
If we dug up a lost book by one of the apostles, could it be added to the canon of the Bible or would that be impossible?
Catholic Answers Staff
Why did some books mentioned in the Bible perish and not make it into the canon?
Catholic Answers Staff
Should Catholics join the Odd Fellows?
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When did the term "Roman Catholic Church" first come into being?
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What would be a proper response to someone who brings up Pope Benedict XVI’s membership in the Hitler Youth just to be provocative?
Michelle Arnold
Was King James persecuted by the Church for translating the Bible into English?
Michelle Arnold

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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.