absolution

And once they're done, they expect absolution.

Prior to that, only bishops and special confessors had been able to give absolution.

Alone she would go before God, and cry for His absolution.

You don't get absolution before the confession.

Do you have any understanding what absolution is?

When I regained consciousness, I saw that the parish priest was already there to give me final absolution!

Are there secrets in your heart which seek absolution through a knowledge of mine?

It's futile, absolution is not available.

" Your Eminence, I am a Christian man, and have never yet been refused absolution" .

Think, I entreat you, how dreadful a thing it is to die without absolution, with all your sins upon your head.