Father Kenneth Doyle
By Father Kenneth Doyle • Catholic News Service • Posted January 12, 2021
Q. Catholics are blessed to have the sacrament of reconciliation. But what about other faiths? How do non-Catholics have their sins forgiven? (Honolulu)
A. The Catholic Church has a long history of the confession of sins. In the earliest centuries, confession was actually done in public, the thinking being that when we sin, we damage not only our own friendship with God but our relationships within the community of faith; but around the sixth century Irish monks began hearing confessions one on one, and that practice spread to the church universal.
Deification: The Lost Doctrine Of The Early Church
December 10, 2020
Keith Giles
Yesterday I had a wonderful conversation with Father Kenneth Tanner. During our talk, he referenced a quote from Athanasius that got my wheels turning.
What he mentioned was that the early Church Father had taught something about the Incarnation of Christ being a journey, not an event in time, where Jesus became fully human only when he died on the cross.
That really got me thinking and so I started to dig into this quote, and into what the early Church Fathers believed about the Incarnation, and that led me to study more about what they believed about the process of Deification within humanity.