Project Gutenberg 2006-12-16 Public domain in the USA. 137 Chiniquy, Charles Paschal Telesphore 1809 1899 Chiniquy, Charles The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional 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 Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy is a critical and autobiographical account written in the late 19th century. This work examines the confessional practices within the Roman Catholic Church, particularly focusing on how these practices impact women and priests alike. The author, a former priest who became a Protestant reformer, highlights themes of moral degradation, power dynamics, and the suffering induced by the Church's system of auricular confession. The opening of this work sets a dramatic and intense tone, beginning with an empathetic reflection on the plight of women in the confessional. Chiniquy discusses the anguish and moral conflict faced by women who must divulge their most intimate thoughts and sins to male confessors, often leading to pain, shame, and a sense of lost purity. He narrates instances where women struggle to maintain their dignity while feeling forced into degradation by the expectations of the Church. Through poignant anecdotes, he lays the groundwork for a broader critique of how the confessional system acts as a "deep pit of perdition," affecting not only the penitents but also the confessors, revealing a cycle of moral compromise that leads to widespread emotional and spiritual ruin. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Protestant authors Confession BX Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 368823 368778 2024-09-09T03:58:21.086965 2023-09-09T06:52:51.000277 text/html text/html 364784 2006-12-16T03:42:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 127690 2006-12-16T03:42:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 190386 2024-09-09T03:58:27.869920 application/epub+zip 194363 2024-09-09T03:58:23.152988 application/epub+zip 194364 2024-09-09T03:58:21.997959 application/epub+zip 427594 2024-09-09T03:58:31.365948 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 410078 2024-09-09T03:58:26.960967 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 410456 2022-09-09T12:54:03.654495 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333937 333664 2024-09-09T03:58:20.233977 2023-09-09T06:52:50.221266 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 333693 2006-12-16T03:42:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 123974 2006-12-16T03:42:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 333713 2006-12-16T03:42:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 123873 2006-12-16T03:42:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20428 2024-09-09T03:58:31.511883 application/rdf+xml 21316 2024-09-09T03:58:22.354955 image/jpeg 4788 2024-09-09T03:58:22.176972 image/jpeg 189962 2024-09-09T03:58:21.118949 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog