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CHINIQUY TO'TRUm" SOME SEYERE REFLECTIONS WON THE LATTER^S STATEMENTS. (To the Editor of the ''Witwss:' ) sir,— Before answering the last abu- Blve article under the name of 'Truth,' allow me to make a few friendly re- marks. First, as T always sign my articles with my name, ought you not to force my calumniators to al.-^o give cheir o^vn names to the public ? The great ma- jority of them would prefer to keep si- lent, than to be publicly known under their true colors and their silence would save you a great deal of trouble. Second. Pltase do not continue to oniJt the best part of my answers, as you have too often done till now- 1 do not fear to meet my adversaries on any ground on which they atta.ck me, provided you allow me the use of my two arms in the conflict. But 1 pro- test against the habit you have to tie one of my arms, by curtailing my ans- wers. I know well that my answers, some- ^i les, are pretty long. But it is not uiy fault, I am dragged, in spite of my- self, by my adversaries, on so many grounds, that I must follow them. You know it well; it talces less time to de- molish a house, than to build it up; so it 13 for every moral or hlistoilcil ques- tion. It takes more space and time to develop and prove than to deny them. Now, let us meet Mr. 'Trutli.' \o,i know well that he is 'untrue' when he says 'He (Chiniquy) confesses that when in the confessional he abused the sac- red character of his oflice to pollute his female penitents.' I never confessed such a thing. But to better under- stand the untruthfulness of ' Mr. Truth,' let your readers get 'The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional,' at the book store of Mr. Grafton, on St. James street. Third. This question of auricular con- fession is of an inflnito impnrtance. Kvery Protestant as we'l as Catholic, ought to stud> and understand it to- day. Foi- some perfidious iiiinisiers, (who are nothing else than disguised .lesuits) are at work to bring back the de'grading and demoralizing institufon into usage aiiain amon;v the Protes- tants. It is a crime to renipin ignorant any longer of the deadly poison admin- istered to the penitent by his conftssor. The recent public scandal of Guyot, on that subject, ought to show the ne- cessity for every husband and eveiy father of studying that question. F.jr, here, I solemnly deoUire.that Guyot !s not an exceiitional case, as the ecc'.esi- asticii.l authiir'.tiixs of Home have .s.\ul; it is the general rule. For one father con- fessor who is detected, as Guyot was, there are ninety who remain known only to the unfortunate an J secret vic- tims of auricular confession. Fourth. This is not the saying of the oldi, infamous apostate Chiniquy, as they cal me in the Church of Rome, it lis the sayiing cf one of the Infallible and most holy popes, called Paul IV. Yes, it is a holy and infallible pope that, declar;?d that, in his encyclical of the 18th January, 1556. In that public docu- ment the infallible pope, says he has heard, that in many places, the father confessors seduce their female peni- temts. (I hope Mr. 'Truth' will not ac- cuse me of having taught that interest- ing fact to his holy pope, in 1556.) In oil' v to put a stop to those abominable piactices of the father confessors, a bull was published by him, by which all the girls and married women who had been seduced into sin by their father confessors, were ordered to denounce them; and a certain number if high church ottlcers of the Holy Inquisition were authorized to take the depositions of the fallen penitents. The thing was at first tried at Seville, one of the prin- cipal cities of Spain. When the edict was first published the numl>er of wo- men who felt bound in conscience to go and depose against their holj' (?) father confessors was so great, that though there were thirty notaries and as many inquisitors, to take the depositions, they were unable to do the W(5rk in the appointed time. Thirty days more were given, but, the inquisi- tors Vv'ere so overwhelmed with the number of depositions, that another period of time of tliirty days was grant- ed. But this again was found In- sufficient. At the end it was found that the number of priests wiio had de- stroyed the purity of their fair peni- tents was so great, that it was im- possible to punish them all. The in- quest was given up, and the guilty con- fessors ii-mained unpunished. Several attempts of the same kin:! liave been tried by other popes, but WJlh about the same results. And, if the present Pope would try the same thing in Montreal, Quebec, and through all Can.ida and the United States, it would be vviilh the same result also. For poor human nature is the same on this eontineu't of Auu?riea as i't is in Spain, Italy and France. There would not be a sufficient number of lawyeis and notaries on this continent of America to take the deprsitions of the married and unmarried women who ■ have been scandalized through aurleu- lar confession, if they were honest enough to declare It, (hough all the lawyers and no'tarles would work day and nighi for thirty, sixty or ninety Uaya. Everywhere, with few exc°r)- tions, auricular confession is a bottom- less abyss of Lniiquity for the pour weak bachielor and hlis not less weal< penitent. FlCth. 'Mr. Truth- writes a moat blas- phemous sentence when he says that the confessional iis 'one of God's g-ifts to men.' rcr he knows very weil ihat there is not a single wcrd of it in the Gtospel. Auricular oonfessLon is of pagan origin. Sixth. Chrtist hiimiself opposed auri- cular confession when he said to the sinners of all tiime.s, 'Come unto me and 1 will give you rest.' The Holy Gho«^ forbade auricular eonfes.sion when he ordered Paul to wiUe the immortal sentence :-'lvet no corrui^t communica- tion proceed out of your mouth ' Seventh. When 'lYuth' asks me , again to make an oath to prove th it « his theologians obKge the married or unmarried lemaleis to pour into the ears of their bachelor confessors all their impure actions, deares, thomc-its, words and even dn^.m.s, it i.s just .as _ it asking me to swear that there is a eity railed Montreal, i,n Canada. It i.'^ a pubiiic, an Incontrovert'ble, undeni- able tact. 1 fTive him here the n,m«^ of live of them, with tne pages of il.eir books. I could give the names cf manv more, If necessary, l au more tham •rpK • i ^"' *"'^" ^'""'' 'lands my volume Phe Pnest, the Woman, and the Con- res.^onal,' at the pas'es 290, 291 '^9-> •>')•> 204. 205 and 296 of which you 'will'irnl m L,at;n, the vei-y damn ng questions on which the mo«t refined ladies as we 1 as the most timed and modest girts must answer, l invite the hus- bands and the fathers of families to '-i to your office to read those matters; and then tell me ;f thera are any v ie men in Alontreal, outislde cf t.h > priests of Rome, to speak on such ques- tions with their wives and aughters. 1 will ask them what m. be the thoughts, the aspiration.^, the inoUna- tions of both pnests and penHtent fe- males after conversing on these sub- jects foi a quarter or half-an-hour. Eighth. Mr. "JYuth' bring.s a^ain"th=^ famous comparison of the body phys''- cians with the physicians of the soul sent by the Pope to cure the .spiritual diseases of mankind. But I deny and reject the comparision hi toto. 'First the art and science of the physicians .'>;-e approved and praised in many places of the hcly .scriptures. Buit the art and 'science of the confessor are nowhere to be found in the holy reeoi'ds The dogma of auricular confession is no- tning else than a most stupendous im- posture, impr.sed on the po.or slaves of (he Pope in the year 12ir,, as the imp'ioua do.arma of the immaculate conception was saddled on the back of tihe Roman- ists, undgr our own eyes, in t^e year 18i)4 and the absurd, ridiculous and blas« phemous dogma of the InfalilbiHtv of the pope was in 1870. As 'Truth' has the brazen face to deny again what I baid about ihe necessity imposed on the poor blind slave of the pope, called fatiher confessor, to put que.s'tlon^ on the most Immoral and Im- pure subjects, I will again quote the un- Impeacnabie authorities of his own church, with the name a.nd the page of thar book.s. At tihe schools of those teachers, tii\e priests must leairn by heart the most unmentionabio and many times ncnstroua forms of infamies aJid impu- ritie.'^ and when Ms memory, his heart. Ills initellect are w-11 s?oaked in those dark, filtihy, boittomless waters of Sodom he IS not only allowed, but he is bound o interrog.ite his young and old poni- lents. male -nd female, on those hor- rors. Here are the very words, not of Chlni- quy, but of the Church oif Rome, speak- ing through Dens, l.iguori. Deb ey , Kerriek, etc.: 'Dest the confessor should indo.ently hesitate in tracing out the circumstances of any sin, let him hnv the toDo'Wlng ver,sicle of ctrcumsmnces in readiness: In Lnfin-Quis'' Quid'? Ubi? Quibus aiixllus? c„r? Quomodo'^ fluando? in Kngltsh— Who? What? Where'' ^Vith whom? Why? How? When? Dens. i,' ^''^^^ ^^^- ^iK'i'Oi'i. vol. 2, page 4(14. Niith. But as 'Truth' has positively denied wliat I sajd about the nature of the questions put by the' confessor I Will again ;;ive my unimpeachable au- thority, which is the famous bo .k '.^Tiroif du Cler.E-y.' 'Miroir du Clergy,' pa^e 357: 'It is necessary that the confessor shou'd know everything on which he has to <^N;eicise his judgm-.it. Let him thc^n vyith wusdom and .-^ubtility interrogate tl:e sinners on the sins wh'ch they niav be ignorant of or conceal throurfi .shame!' ^ nl '"u'"''''- «'''''^' ''■"" ^'"^^ the shrewd C.iiurch or Rome, in order to throw du.st into the eyes of the public, on those abominahie and infamous quosti ns s;i:.s: "rhose quesviocis must be put with great prudence, in order not to scan- dalize the penitents,' etc., etc. Well, sir, this is ju«t as if I were tell- ng you: 'Put the right hand of vour boy into tho.se burning coaL^, for 5 or 10 minute.s. Rut this must be done with such care ajiid prudence that it will not be burned!' This cunning advice to the confessors, to 1)0 very pnid-.Mt when putting these inl^amoiis quesfons, in order not to scm- dalize their fair penitents, was just as if you were telling one of your daughters: Hip your white dr-ss into this bucket of black inS-, imt do that with so much wisdom and prulonce that vour white dress will not be .spoiled.' _ Tt Is the old .sfory of Adam and Eve in the earthly piradise: 'Take that fru't and eat It. There is no sin in tbat. ? ou wdl not die it is the con- trary; you will became as God himself.' CHINIQUY.