5 sentences with 'confession'

Example sentences and phrases with the word confession and other words derived from it.


« It was forbidden to torment those accused of crimes in order to obtain their confession, and it was ordered that all torture devices or instruments be burned. »
« If you are thinking of making a confession to your partner that could drop like a bombshell, stop and think, not only about what you plan to reveal, but why you want to reveal it. »
« In turn, an individual's religious confession was concomitant with loyalty or disloyalty to his prince - someone who followed a rival branch of Christianity was, from a ruler's perspective, not only a religious dissident, but a political rebel. »
« In turn, an indulgence was a certificate offered by the Church that offered the same spiritual power as the sacrament of confession and penance: to have one's sins absolved. Each indulgence promised a certain amount of time that the individual would not have to spend in purgatory after death. »
« The Catholic Church invented Freud two thousand years ago, what a psychologist does is no different from what a priest does in confession. And what the Church did not discover, Shakespeare did with his remarkable intuition four hundred years ago. The ghost of Richard III, the ghost of Hamlet's father is the voice of his conscience. »

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