Excerpt from The Absolution Formula of the TemplarsTo understand it rightly, we must bear in mind that the members of the Military Orders were monks, subject to all the rules and entitled to all the privileges of monachism. To appreciate their relations to the great subject of the sac rament of penitence, we must, therefore, consider what, at the date of their foundation, were the customs of the re ligious Orders, as well as what were the teachings of the Church with regard to confession and absolution, and we can then estimate how far Clement V. Was justified in including this among the charges for which the Order was destroyed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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