Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) 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. * * * * * 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.