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William Hogan. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries
Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries
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AURICULAR CONFESSION and POPISH NUNNERIES, Volume I
INTRODUCTION
AURICULAR CONFESSION AND POPISH NUNNERIES
DESTRUCTION OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN
AURICULAR CONFESSION and POPISH NUNNERIES, Volume II
By William Hogan
PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME
AURICULAR CONFESSION AND POPISH NUNNERIES
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William Hogan
Volumes I. and II., Complete
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This unreasonable, unscriptural, and impious doctrine, is inculcated especially in the confessional. No man, not even a papist, dare preach in public such a dogma as blind obedience in anything, or to any man. I have always been instructed, while a Catholic priest, never to intimate in public that the Romish church ever required unconditional submission to her will, unless I was morally certain that all my hearers were by birth and education Roman Catholics; but my orders were positive, and under pain of losing my sacerdotal faculties, never to lose an opportunity of inculcating this in the confessional. There and there alone do Romish priests teach and fasten upon the minds of their penitents all the iniquities which the church of Rome sanctions.
If I can satisfy Americans that Auricular Confession is dangerous to their liberties; if I can show them that it is the source and fountain of many, if not all, those treasons, debaucheries, and other evils, which are now flooding this country, I shall feel that I have done an acceptable work, and some service to the State. I fear, however, that I shall fail in this; not because what I state is not true, and even admitted to be so, but because Americans seem determined—I would almost say fated—to political and moral destruction.
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