Sentence examples for offering confession from inspiring English sources

In the wake of the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, the Catholic Church began offering confession in "reconciliation rooms," rather than the traditional booths.

The diocese's 87 churches, which include St . Johns, will be offering confession for two hours every Tuesday night in addition to the usual Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning periods.

Research from the United States suggests that most suspects cannot hold out for anywhere near that long without offering a confession, genuine or not.In Japan, moreover, suspects enjoy only limited access to their defence lawyers during this long confinement.

But in a way, the man who has also become the world's biggest philanthropist seems to be taking himself to task, offering the confession that he himself was "naive -- very naive" when he began his charitable endeavors six years ago.

Mark Chaffin, a pediatrician and psychologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, agrees that children are particularly vulnerable to offering false confessions.

We can hear the same note of personal anguish in Coetzee's fiction, even as that fiction insists that it is offering not a confession but only the staging of a confession.

After a few nervous glances, the diners went around the table, each offering a similar confession.

It's what the CIA calls "no-touch torture", and its purpose there, as in this case, is very clear: to demoralise someone to the point of offering a desired confession.

David McCallum served 29 years in prison after being coerced into offering a false confession for the kidnapping and murder of a 20-year-old boy in 1985.

Although his actions endanger his own life and that of anyone he comes into contact with, he continues to travel from town to town offering to hear confessions and perform baptisms.

An article in Business Day last Monday about a planned Court TV series offering the videotaped confessions of people accused of violent crimes misstated the outcome of a case involving Daniel Rakowitz, who was taped confessing to the murder and dismemberment of a woman in Manhattan in 1989.