Confession Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Colonial Era Trent and Penance in the Colonial Period ............11 2. Nineteenth Century The Confessional Seal : Legal and Apologetic Dimensions of the Sacrament of Penance ...........31 Sin, Repentance, and Confession in Nineteenth- Century American Protestant Polemics ............45 American Catholic Theology of Penance in Nineteenth-Century America ........79 American Catholic Practice of Confession in Nineteenth - Century America .................109 3. Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries History, Pius X, and the Practice of Confession, 1900-20..............135 Confession, Contimuity, and Reform, 1920-60.................165 Confession , the New Psychology, and birth control, 1920-60...............199 From Confession to reconciliation, vatican II to 2015