{"id":52626,"date":"2015-03-12T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/03\/12\/pope-francis-a-confession-should-not-be-torturea\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T18:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:28:58","slug":"pope-francis-a-confession-should-not-be-torturea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/03\/12\/pope-francis-a-confession-should-not-be-torturea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u00e2??Confession should not be torture\u00e2?\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participants in the Apostolic Penitentiary's annual course met with Pope Francis the day before the second anniversary of his election.<\/p>\n<p>CARD. MAURO PIACENZA<br \/>\nMajor Penitentiary<br \/>\n'I have the pleasure to extend a respectful and filial greeting that translates into prayer for him and the fruitfulness of his Petrine ministry on the eve of the anniversary of his election. Congratulations.'<\/p>\n<p>The Pope gave the panel of confession experts some tips on how to best administer the sacrament. He warned that neither moral laxity nor cold legal rigorism were actually merciful.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'The sacraments, as we know, put humans in a place of closeness and tenderness to God. Reconciliation certainly renders present with special efficacy the merciful face of God.'<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis said that confession cannot be 'an annoying and intrusive interrogation.' Rather, he continued, it is a rich gathering of humanity in which one tries to repair the evil that has been done. The good confessor, said the Pope, knows he is a sinner. He told them to try as penitental brothers to 'accompany\u00e2?\u009d people on their way.<\/p>\n<p>JRB\/ATO<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nJM<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:JRB<br \/>\n#Pope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 2015. He also warned neither moral laxity nor cold legal rigorism are actually merciful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Tw-yqeCX-yc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bpenitenapostint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}