If There is no Freedom to Confess, There Should be No Freedom at All in the World: the Extraordinary Confession of Nuns in the modern period
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https://doi.org/10.12795/hid.2025.i52.9Keywords:
extraordinary confession, nuns, regulations, religious orders, bishopsAbstract
ABSTRACT: Throughout the modern era, debates about nuns’ freedom of confession continued. The Holy See attempted to regulate extraordinary confession, which offered punctual and recurring spiritual attention through a confessor different from the ordinary one. The Council of Trent (1545-1563) and the Bull Pastoralis Curae (1748), among others, laid down the conditions for this form of confession, but its application varied. The study of these regulations and the analysis of their application by the female communities, as well as the debates that their application generated within the religious orders, allow us to approach the way in which the spiritual life of the nuns was regulated, the way in which these measures were applied and the use that was made of them in the cloisters in various contexts of dispute.
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