The Priest, The Woman and The Confessional

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Title: The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
Author: Father Chiniquy
Release Date: December 16, 2006 [EBook #20120]
Language: English
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THE PRIEST, THE WOMAN
AND
THE CONFESSIONAL.
By FATHER CHINIQUY.
Montreal:
F. E. GRAFTON, BOOKSELLER.
CORNER CRAIG ST. AND VICTORIA SQUARE.
1875.
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ENTERED according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, by F. E. GRAFTON of Montreal, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE STRUGGLE BEFORE THE SURRENDER OF WOMANLY SELF-RESPECT IN THE CONFESSIONAL
CHAPTER II.
AURICULAR CONFESSION A DEEP PIT OF PERDITION FOR THE PRIEST
CHAPTER III.
THE CONFESSIONAL IS THE MODERN SODOM
CHAPTER IV.
HOW THE VOW OF CELIBACY OF THE PRIESTS IS MADE EASY BY AURICULAR CONFESSION
CHAPTER V.
THE HIGHLY EDUCATED AND REFINED WOMAN IN THE CONFESSIONAL.--WHAT BECOMES OF HER AFTER HER UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.--HER IRREPARABLE RUIN
CHAPTER VI.
AURICULAR CONFESSION DESTROYS ALL THE SACRED TIES OF MARRIAGE AND HUMAN SOCIETY
CHAPTER VII.
SHOULD AURICULAR CONFESSION BE TOLERATED AMONG CIVILIZED NATIONS?
CHAPTER VIII.
DOES AURICULAR CONFESSION BRING PEACE TO THE SOUL?
CHAPTER IX.
THE DOGMA OF AURICULAR CONFESSION A SACRILEGIOUS IMPOSTURE
CHAPTER X.
GOD COMPELS THE CHURCH OF ROME TO CONFESS THE ABOMINATIONS OF AURICULAR CONFESSION
CHAPTER XI.
SOME OF THE MATTERS ON WHICH THE PRIEST OF ROME MUST QUESTION HIS PENITENTS.--A CHAPTER FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATORS, HUSBANDS, FATHERS, &C.
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PREFACE.
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EZEKIEL.
CHAPTER VIII.
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber.
3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said unto me. Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12 Then said he unto me. Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O Son of man? turn thee