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From: "Bradford DeLong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Catholics Could Lose Seal of Confession


> But when the Knights Templar were suppressed by Philip the Fair of
> France and Pope Clement V in 1307, one of the charges was that the
> Templars confessed only to each other and not to other priests--so
> that nobody outside the order knew what horrible and foul things were
> going on within the order.
>
> So it would seem that the "not under any circumstances be divulged"
> is less than seven centuries old...
>
> :-)
>
>
> Brad DeLong

Are you sure that the 14th century is the origin of the confessional Brad?
(As we know it)

xponent
Contrition Maru
rob
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You have no right to be here.
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>
> >http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/1/25/141548
> >
> >The seal of confessional, which guarantees that whatever a penitent
> >confesses may not under any circumstances be divulged by the confessor,
is
> >under attack...
> >
> >
> >
> >xponent
> >Theories Of God Maru
> >rob
>
>
>
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