The dark box : a secret history of confession / John Cornwell.

A bestselling journalist exposes the connection between the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis and the practice of confession. Confession is a crucial ritual of the Catholic Church, offering absolution of sin and spiritual guidance to the faithful. Yet this ancient sacrament has also been a...

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Main Author: Cornwell, John, 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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505 0 |a A brief history of confession. Early penitents and their penances -- Confession into its own -- Confession and the Counter-Reformers -- Fact, fiction, and anticlericalism -- The child penitents. The pope who 'restored' Catholicism -- Pius X's spy-net -- The great confessional experiment -- The making of a confessor -- Seminary sexology -- 'Soul murder'. Sexual abuse in the confessional -- Confession imagined -- Varieties of confessional experience. 
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