The dark box : a secret history of confession

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cornwell, John, 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Doctrines > History.
Catholic Church
Confession > Catholic Church > History.
RELIGION > Christian Rituals & Practice > Worship & Liturgy.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Confession > Catholic Church
Theology, Doctrinal
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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