1.   But they can not perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites.

2.   But hearing confession was different, he said.

3.   But they cannot perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites.

4.   He is barred from officiating at church services, from hearing confessions and from pinning a crucifix to his wall.

5.   In hearing confession, he said, he never veered from church teaching, noting that he emphasized the spiritual emptiness of promiscuity, homosexual or heterosexual.

6.   Within days, its pastor, the Rev. Kevin Madigan, began celebrating Masses for rescue workers, hearing confessions and offering counseling.

7.   At noon, he spent an hour in the Basilica hearing confessions from five women and four men of various nationalities who were chosen from the crowd.

8.   He spent an hour in the Basilica hearing confessions from five women and four men of various nationalities who were chosen from the crowd.

9.   The Spanish bishops conference said Friday that Vegas would be suspended from hearing confessions, Spanish radio reported.

10.   The Right Rev. Willie Walsh, the Roman Catholic bishop of Killaloe, should have authority to permit or forbid Cox from hearing confessions.