If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,
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It was a heart-to-heart talk where he was feeling very badly that two of his friends had been accused and convicted of something which he had done, and it was his desire to do something to make the truth appear and he wanted to make public the fact that he was responsible and they were not,Joseph Towle
He was asking me what he should do, and at that time I told him that if he had the courage and the heart to do it, that he should go to the court and that he should acknowledge that he was responsible and the others were not,
Joseph Towle
went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.
Joseph Towle
If someone were to come to a Catholic priest and to confess to a murder in a confessional situation, which is between that person and God -- using myself in this case as a medium -- there is nothing absolutely that I could say, ever,
Joseph Towle
So I advised him then that if he had the courage and the heart to do it that he should go to the court and should reveal in detail, just as he had done to me, ... His purpose in having this conversation with me was to decide what he could do publicly to exonerate these two boys who were accused in his place.
Joseph Towle
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