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RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF Penance, Anointing, & Burial
Magisterial Sources Pope John XXIII. Encyclical on the Need for the Practice of Exterior and Interior Penance Paenitentiam agere. 1 July 1962. Pope Paul VI. Apostolic Constitution on Fast and Abstinence Paenitemini. 17 February 1966. Pope Paul VI. Apostolic Constitution on Indulgences Indulgentiarum doctrina. January 1, 1967. Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Pastoral Norms Concerning the Administration of General Sacramental Absolution. 16 June 1972. Rite of Penance (Ordo paenitentiae). 1974. Pope John Paul II. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on Reconciliation and Penance in the Mission of the Church Today Reconciliatio et paenitentia. 2 December 1984. Cardinal Jorge A. Medina Estévez,
Prefect of the Congregation for Divine
Worship. Circular Letter Concerning the Integrity of the Sacrament of Penance.
20 March 2000. Sacred Congregation for
Doctrine of the Faith. Declaration In Defense of the Dignity of the Sacrament of
Penance. 23 March 1973. DOL no. 364, §3060.
Pastoral Aids and Reflections Carlson, Robert J. Jesus Christ, The Divine Physician: Pastoral Letter on Penance. 2nd ed. Saginaw MI: Catholic Diocese of Saginaw, 2008. Penned by Edward M. Hogan, Carlson published this letter as bishop of Saginaw. Giesler, Michael E. Guidebook for Confessors. New York: Scepter, 2010. Keller, Paul Jerome. 101 Questions & Answers on the Sacraments of Healing: Penance and Anointing of the Sick. New York: Paulist Press, 2010. Kelly, Gerald. The Good Confessor. New York: Sentinel Press, 1951. Stafford, Cardinal James Francis. “Sacraments of Healing: Reconciliation and Anointing." Address to the Annual General Conference of the Society for Catholic Liturgy. Mary Immaculate Center in Northampton, Pennsylvania. 21 September 2006.
Studies on The Sacrament of Penance Coffey, David M. The Sacrament of Reconciliation. Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 2001. This book contains some helpful observations and orients one to current discussions, but is marred in part by a commitment to the fundamental option theory in moral theology. Dallen, James. The Reconciling Community: The Rite of Penance. Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 1986. This primarily historical study ends with consideration of the revised Roman rites. Hahn, Scott. Lord Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession. New York: Doubleday, 2003. International Theological Commission. "Penance and Reconciliation." In International Theological Commission Texts and Documents 1969-1985, ed. Michael Sharkey, pp. 229-254. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989. Lea, Henry Charles. A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church, vol. 1, Confession and Absolution. London: Swan Sonneschein, 1896; reprint Adamant Media, 2005. The thorough nature of this study explains its reprinting over 100 years after the original publication date. Dallen, James.
The Reconciling Community: The Rite of Penance. New York: Pueblo, 1986. Fitzgerald,
Allan. Conversion Through Penance in the Italian Church of the Fourth and
Fifth Centuries: New Approaches to the Experience of Conversion from Sin.
Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1988. Haslehurst, R.S.T.
Some Account of the Penitential Discipline of the Early Church in the
First Four Centuries. Poschmann,
Bernhard. Penance and the Anointing of the Sick. Trans. Francis Courtney.
New York: Herder and Herder, 1964. Rahner, Karl.
Theological Investigations, vol. 15, Penance in the Early Church.
Trans. Lionel Swain. New York: Crossroad, 1982. Watkins, Oscar
D. A History of Penance: Being a Study of the Authorities,
vol.1, The Whole Church to A.D. 450.
New York: Burt Franklin, 1961.
Studies on the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick Kasza, John C. Understanding Sacramental Healing: Anointing and Viaticum. Chicago: Hillenbrand, 2007. Larson-Miller, Lizette. The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 2005. Meyendorff, Paul. The Anointing of the Sick. Orthodox Liturgy Series 1. Crestwood NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2009. Meyendorff includes an English translation of the Greek and Slavic rites of anointing, and orients the reader
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