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Does "the black pope" wield the true power in the Vatican?
Catholic Answers Staff
Who were the Samaritans and why were they important?
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How do we know the successors to the apostles had the same authority they did?
Fr. Hal Stockert
Is it true that there is no record of a census around the birth of Jesus and therefore Joseph and Mary weren't in Bethlehem?
In which passages does Jesus quote the Septuagint, and where does the New Testament allude to the Septuagint?
Jason Evert
Does the Catholic Church approve of forced conversions?
Catholic Answers Staff
How can you say one of the marks of the Church is unity when, at one time in the 14th century, there were three popes?
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What were Christians called before St. Ignatius of Antioch referred to them as Catholics?
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How do I explain that the Catholic Church did not split from the Christian church?
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Eastern-rite Catholics use leavened bread in Holy Communion, but Roman-rite Catholics use unleavened bread. Why the difference?
Catholic Answers Staff

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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.