The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional
The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional
Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Charles Chiniquy spent three decades inside the Catholic priesthood before breaking away to become one of its most vocal critics. This book is his firsthand account of what he witnessed in the confessional booth: a system that, he argues, forces women to surrender their most intimate thoughts to male priests under threat of eternal damnation. Through specific anecdotes and his experience hearing confessions from over two hundred fellow priests, Chiniquy paints a picture of institutional corruption that poisons both the confessor and the penitent. The book caused outrage when published, and it remains a lightning rod for debates about ecclesiastical power, gender, and spiritual authority. Whether read as historical polemic or evidence of real abuses, it offers an unflinching look at what happens when sacred secrecy meets unequal power. For readers interested in religious history, the evolution of confession, or 19th-century debates about faith and authority.
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“Let not my readers be deceived by the idea that the popes of Rome in our days, are much better than those of the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. They are absolutely the same”
— Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
“Let the readers study the history of the celebrated Council of Constance, called to put an end to the great schism, during which three popes, and sometimes four, were every morning cursing each other and calling their opponents Antichrists, demons, adulterers, sodomists, murderers, enemies of God and man. As every one of them was an infallible pope, according to the last Council of the Vatican, we are bound to believe that they were correct in the compliments they paid to each other. One””
— Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
“Do not answer to us that these are exceptional cases, for I am ready to prove that this unspeakable degradation and immorality are the normal state of the greater part of the priests of Rome. Father Hyacinthe has publicly declared, that ninety-nine out of one hundred of them, live in sin with the females they have destroyed. And not only the common priests are, for the greater part, sunk in that bottomless pit of secret or public infamy, but the bishops and popes, with the cardinals, are no better. Who””
— Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
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