The Catholic question in America : whether a Roman Catholic clergyman be in any case compellable to disclose the secrets of auricular confession : decided at the Court of General Sessions, in the City of New York : present, the Honorable De Witt Clinton, mayor, the Honorable Josiah Ogden Hoffman, recorder, Richard Cunningham, Isaac S. Douglass, Esqrs. sitting aldermen : with the arguments of counsel, and the unanimous opinion of the court, delivered by the mayor, with his reasons in support of that opinion /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Includes (p. [i]-cxxviii, 2nd group): A true exposition of the doctrine, of the Catholic Church touching the sacrament of penance, with the ground on which the doctrine is founded [p. [iii]-cxii]; Notes referred to in the trial [p. [cxiii]-cxx]; The Jesuits. The bees [a poem on the Jesuit order] from the Latin of J. Vaniere and translated by Arthur Murphy [p. [cxxi]-cxxviii].. Reverend Kohlmann, Rector of Saint Peter's, was subpoenaed to attend before a Grand Jury in a case involving stolen goods and asked to reveal information received in auricular confession, to which he refused. Errata on last leaf. |
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| Physical Description: | 138, cxxviii, 2 unnumbered pages, 176 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |