Sentence examples for confessional statement from inspiring English sources

Then, on a television wheeled up beside the witness stand, we were shown a grainy video of the defendant's confessional statement.

But he said it could not be used against him because "it was not a confessional statement, it was not a statement under oath, and any statement without oath, even before a judge, is not admissible".

Koehler was aware of these facts when he made his confessional statement, but he still seemed persuaded that he had been double-crossed, and the closest he came to expressing remorse was to say, "I'm sorry now for a buck-sixty".

The Thirty nine Articles are the only official confessional statement of Anglicanism.

If he speaks because he is overborne, his confessional statement cannot be received in evidence and it does not matter by what means he has been overborne.

On his return to Strasbourg, he stepped up his attacks on Catholic rites and ceremonies, and on 2 July published the, a confessional statement calling on Strasbourg to repent and to defend reformed principles outlined in twenty-nine articles.

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches responded with their own confessional statements.

"Courts usually take a lenient view if confessional statements are made".

Because of the advance of the ecumenical movement, recent confessional statements have usually been unitive rather than divisive.

Lutherans subscribe to the three ancient ecumenical Christian creeds together with the 16th-century Lutheran confessional statements.

In the 17th century, Protestant theologians interpreted the confessional statements of the earlier century with an almost fanatic attention to detail.