Sentences with phrase «make such a confession»

Wire - tapping laws exist at the federal level as well as the state level — some state versions are more stringent, and such laws may make such a confession inadmissible in court.

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Book X of the Confessions repeatedly professes wonder at the God who has made us with such a capacity:

And no one wants to make the obvious awkward confession that there is an arbitrary human component of contract, agreement and such [that creates «ethics»].

We can see how the Apostles» Creed is an extension or expansion of such «confessions,» made necessary because of movements of thought or opinion which were beginning to invade the Christian community and to threaten the integrity of the gospel the Church preached.

In any case, the High Priest construed it as a confession that he did make such a claim.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

No minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall be allowed to disclose any confessions made to him in his professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the rules of practice of such denomination.

Is the «priest - penitent privilege» properly invoked when there is no pastor - parish setting in which confession is a religious duty incumbent upon priest and penitent, when the «penitents» are not necessarily members of the priest's denomination, when there is no «confession» as such, and when the clergyman is asked to divulge not the content of a confession, but, as the legal briefs say, observations made by him «incident thereto»?

Indeed, confession might be (and often has been) made before the congregation; the clergy, as such, need not be a party to it at all.

Obviously, Boe's role at Wounded Knee was not a traditional ecclesiastical one; AIM was not a «parish» of the American Lutheran Church (though that church has made regular grants to it); probably no one was confessing his or her sins; and Boe was not asked to divulge the content of any such confessions anyway.

Mr. Donohue will need to make a darn strong confession before he dies, because God does not endorse hate and those who die with such sins on their soul go to hell.

Then the text moved on to a formidable list of reformanda: inadequate procedures for selection and training of priests, pastoral responsibilities allotted to those living elsewhere (Campeggio as Bishop of Salisbury would be an example — but Rome was full of such men who used a part of their salary to pay a vicar to look after their diocese while they did other more congenial work in Rome); the bequeathing of benefices in wills especially to the children of priests, pluralism, failure to correct those who make money by hearing confessions.

Such fellowships were to be voluntarily formed by church members who had responded to an appeal from the ministers, but no one was to be permitted to join without making a clear confession of his faith.

I have a confession to make: I have begun to tire of sandbox games, and, as such, I have never felt more alienated by the games industry.

The obsession of his art with the quotidian recalled the use of banal objects, such as tram tickets, in the work of Cubist painters, while his later pieces made explicit confession of his debt to Leger, Matisse and Seurat.

61 A preliminary issue arises of whether statements derived from an involuntary confession may be excluded whether or not such statements are made to a person in authority.

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