The Priest, The Woman and The Confessional

The Priest, The Woman And The
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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.
* * * * *
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.
* * * * *
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.
* * * * *
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