The right to silence; privileged communication and the pastor. [print]

PART ONE. The churches and the right to silence ; I. Why keep silent? Regina versus Hay-a classic case --Canon law and the priest --Pragmatism and the psychiatrist --The uneasy freedom of the protestant pastor ; II. Where the pastor and the law meet --Typical cases --No clear interpretation ; III. How it all began --The Bible --The church fathers ; Papal recognition ; Papal legislation ; Current practice ; IV. The common law came out of England ; Anglo-Saxon England --Post-Norman England --Lyndwood -The English canonist --Articuli Cleri-A misunderstood statute ; V. Anglicans and the right to silence --Post-Reformation England --The canons of 1603 --Privileges of confession withdrawn ; VI. Luther reforms confession --Luther reforms confession --Luther's doctrine of confession --Luther and the seal --Later Lutherans and the right to silence ; VII. Confession in the reformed churches --Zwingli --Bullinger --Calvin --Reformed churches and the right to silence ; VIII. The churches re-examine confession --Three reasons why --Bonhoeffer's re-examination --Thurneysen's corrective --Tournier and Mowrer --The experience at Taize --The outlook ahead

PART TWO. The law and the right to silence ; IX. Some necessary definitions --Privilege in general --When communications are not privileged --What relations, then, are privileged? --Why grants the privilege to clergymen? ; X. Communications to clergymen under the common law ; The case of constance Kent ; Where the Priest had to tell --Where the priest was silent --The statement of Jeremy Bentham ; XI. Statutes about the right to silence ; Statements made to clergymen in pursuance of Church discipline --Statements made to clergymen not in pursuance of church discipline --Statements made by clergymen --Status of person to whom statements are made --Statements involving third persons --Matters communicated otherwise than by oral statements --Who, really, possesses the privilege? The current situation --A.L.I. Model code ; XII. Unresolved issues needing attention --Communications involving a third person --Status of communications from married couples --The scope of privileged communication --Discipline enjoined by the rules and practice of the religious body --The possessions of the privilege --Confession to Laymen --A model statue ; XIII. Guidance for pastors.

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