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 318 ess&scs---com*ssstos. - [Boo; II We must therefore leave t pic fe we have prly un i endle vaetes. 7. The  obse in confion wl  wo �brief sey, as it prees, in pan, for prucing e evih of confon. In pdmifive church there w no such thing  priv wessi0n, since pcfised in e Church of Rome. The Cacsm of e Coc Trent dles: "Secrecy should be scfiy obseed,  well by penitent  priest; and hence, cause in such circumnc recy must be iecure, no one can, on y account, confs by mnr or letter," p. 260. Agn: "But  t are anous that eir sins should  bued in eternal secrecy, the faiful are  be udn tt ere is  rean whatever  apprehend that what is me own in confession will ever  revered by y priest, or at by it the penitent can at any time be bwught inw danger or dculty of any son. All laws, human d &vine, ard the violabity of e of confession, and agast i sacrileo infraction the chuh d nonces her heavie chastemen. ' Let e pt,' says the t Council of teran, 'ke escial care, neither by word, nor by any oer means whatever,  beamy, in e lent dee, e cred tr nfided w m by the sinner,'" p. 262. The instructions on ts int ven to Roman Caolic pes me of eir seminaries tr them to falsehd; yea, more, eir e- olo,  a system, insists un p, and demds it of e n- lessors. T  a hea charge, d the oof ought to be c for and pruced. Here is the prf: Peter Dens, in s Theolo, whh is e cid-book in the Maynooth College, in Ireland, and is geney ed in most Roman Caolic theoloc schls, and is approved by e ig of the Church of Rome, teach as foHows what the duty of confessors is  reference m what is communicd to them in confession :-- fis ? A. None can be ven; though the rg or of a m, or e suco. of the commonweal, would depend thereon. For e  himlf cot dispon wi it i caue th secrecy of e seal of confession is more binding than e oblivion of  oa, a vow,  nat secret, &e.; and it depen on the five will of G a tmt     b :l fs  Au. He ought m answer that ug o so sow ; nd, if noce,    t t ; tf, &c. A. The minor pmiti  denied: ose such a confesr is ingad s x , d awe . ; but he ds not know is truth  m, gh owz  s Gov  St. Thom Aquiuas says, q. ii, an. 1, ad. 3: and s sense pmrIy esm nally in the ve answer; for when he is interogued or anwem in oer cases thn conferion, he is coidored   s. "But if onf, sor dict� etlt. r Imom tht Iq acramenta/rdmjsoa  An. In this cae he ought to answer no- thing: so says Steyart with Sy!viuo. But such an interrogation is to 1

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