In 1780 another band of colonists reached Nashville by way of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, and in the same year a public meeting or convention was held in Nashville, which adopted articles of agreement for the common defense and general welfare, the control of this Government being ...
We know that before the end of the ninth century both boys and girls attended the schools attached to the parish churches in the Diocese of Soissons. As time went on the establishment and maintenance of schools by the Church was made a matter of express canonical enactment. No document ...
As the administration of the sacraments by Methodist clergymen had not yet become the universal rule, the churches that did not enjoy this privilege insisted upon its concession. The question was permanently settled by the “Plan of Pacification” in 1795. It granted the right of administering ...
b) Third Order Secular of St. Dominic was introduced into the United States by the early Dominican missionaries. There are at present congregations of DominicanTertiariesin almost all the churches in charge of Dominican Fathers, numbering from 100-600 members, and many hundred tertiaries throughou...
Legislation Directly Affecting Religion.—By statute (enacted in 1881 and now in force) “Clergymen, as to confessions or admissions made to them in the course of the discipline enjoined by their respective churches, shall not be competent witnesses.” By statute (enacted in 1891 and in force...