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History of Sexuality
(Foucault),
116

A History of the Popes
(Chadwick),
93

Hitchcock, Alfred,
199

Hocke, Ansgar (abuse witness),
177

Hofstadter, Richard,
70

Holy Anorexia
(Bell),
58

Holy Communion.
See
Communion

Holy Daring
(Udris),
204

Holy women,
25
,
55–59
,
69

Homicide/murder,
7
,
11

Homosexuality,
14
,
142–143
,
208

Homunculi,
21

How Far Can You Go?
(Lodge),
63

Humanae Vitae
,
208
,
212

Humanist thinking,
30–31

Hus, John,
236

Hypogonadism,
151

I Confess
(film),
199

Idolatry,
6
,
7
,
31

Imagination,
196
,
232

The Imitation of Christ
(Thomas à Kempis),
22
,
131
,
229–230

Impurity,
144

In Bruges
,
199

Incest,
21

Index of Forbidden Books,
67
,
90

Indulgences,
27–29
,
31

Infallibility,
99
,
207

Innocent III,
15–17
,
19
,
20

Inquisition

      
Antonio Gavin and,
67
,
68

      
failure to attend confession and,
37

      
Friedrich Spee writings on,
55

      
Innocent III and,
16
,
20

      
moral academy set up by,
67

      
sexual abuse/solicitation crimes,
46
,
50

      
Spanish,
46
,
47

      
Umberto Benigni and,
94

The Inside Story
(McKenty),
116

Interdict,
16

Internal forum,
160

James of Vitry,
25

James the Greater,
12

Jansen, Cornelius,
63

Jansenism,
63–64

Jenkins, Philip,
162

Jerome (saint),
6

Jesuits

      
founding of,
59

      
Jansenists debate with,
64

      
probabilism and,
64

      
in sixteenth century England,
39

John Chrysostom,
12

John Jay Report,
163
,
175–176

John, King
16

John of the Cross (saint),
56
,
203–204

John Paul II,
80
,
81
,
186–188
,
206
,
211–213

John XXIII,
81
,
96
,
125
,
134

Jordan, Joe,
156

Joseph of Cupertino,
54

Jouhandeau, Marcel,
73

Joyce, James,
117
,
200–202
,
204–205
,
237

Judgement Day,
5

Julian of Norwich,
217

Kallman syndrome,
151

Karadima, Fernando,
185

Kearns, Gerry,
163

Keenan, Marie,
157
,
160
,
189–192
,
195

Kenny, Anthony,
209–210
,
225

Kinsey, Alfred,
151

Kinsey report,
172
,
173

Klein, Josephine,
161–162

Kristeva, Julia,
227

Kulturkampf,
84

La Religieuse
(Diderot),
68

Laicisation,
66
,
184

Lamentabili Sane
(Pius X),
91
,
97

Las Casas, Bartolomé de,
62

Laven, Mary,
49

Law, canon,
98–99

Le Rouge et le Noir
(Stendhal),
73

Lea, Henry Charles,
105

Legion of Christ,
185
,
187

Lent,
3
,
6
,
20
,
38

Leo XIII,
62–63
,
79–80
,
89

Léon Morin, Prêtre
,
199

Les mystères de la pornographie clericale; secrets honteux de la confession, immoralités, obscénités, et guerre aux prêtres, corrupteurs de la jeunesse
(Morphy),
72

Life of Mary of Oignies
(James of Vitry),
25

Liguori, Alphonsus,
61
,
64–66
,
135

Lion, Giovanni Pietro,
49

Llorente, Juan Antonio,
69

Locke, John,
45

Lodge, David,
63

Loisy, Alfred,
89–90

Lorraine, Jean de,
34

Lust,
22

Luther, Martin,
31–32
,
34
,
236

Maciel, Marcial,
185–187

MacIntyre, Alasdair,
231

Magna Carta,
16

Mahoney, John,
63
,
213–214

Malleus Maleficarum
,
55

Marabotto,
26

Marlowe, Christopher,
233

Marriage

      
life-long virginity compared,
142

      
priestly interference with,
73

      
remarriage without annulment,
222

      
submission and obedience of wife to husband,
23

Martini, Carlo Mario,
211
,
214–216

Mary Magdalen de Pazzi,
57

Mary (Tudor),
38–39

A Master Key to Popery
(Gavin),
67

Masters, William,
151

Masturbation

      
by children,
152–153
,
172

      
by clergy,
10
,
51
,
151
,
155–156
,
160

      
confession of,
21–22
,
119–120

      
female,
52–53

      
in moral textbooks,
146

      
as mortal sin,
148–151
,
208

      
mutual,
14
,
43
,
73

      
penance for,
10

      
sexual abuse and,
185

Mathieu, François-Désiré,
81

Maundy Thursday,
6

McArdle, Michael Joseph,
189

McCabe, Herbert,
238

McCallum, Leslie,
156
,
172–173
,
175
,
178

McCarthy, Mary,
113

McDonagh, Martin,
199

McKenty, Neil,
116

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa
(film),
181

Mean Streets
(film),
199

Meat, abstinence from on Fridays,
138

Melville, Jean-Pierre (director),
199

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
(Schreber),
151

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
(McCarthy),
113

Mendicant preaching orders, confessions heard by,
48

Meneghello, Luigi,
198

Mental sins,
9–10

Merry Del Val, Rafael,
81
,
93

Metanoia,
236–237

Milton, John Laws,
153

Milton, John,
233

Miraculous Medal,
109

Mirbeau, Octave,
73

Modernism,
88–91
,
93–95
,
97
,
98
,
133
,
203

Modesty,
141–144

Monastery

      
enclosure enforced by Council of Trent,
35
,
48

      
penance and confession in,
7–8

      
sexual abuse in,
14

      
Skellig Michael,
7

Moral and Pastoral Theology
(Davis),
135–136
,
141

Moral guidance, as spiritual direction,
62

Moral theology,
60
,
61–66

Moreno, Manuel D.,
184

Morphy, Michel,
72

Mortal sin

      
children taught about,
110
,
113

      
confession of,
36

      
contraception,
208

      
fasting and,
136

      
impure thoughts as,
229

      
judgements on,
63

      
masturbation,
148–151
,
208

      
obligatory confession and,
15
,
19

      
unconfessed,
114

      
venial sin compared,
27

      
wife disobedience,
23

Mothers and Sons
(Tóibín),
198

Murphy, Lawrence,
181

Mysticism,
55–57

Nájera, Gaspar de,
49–50

Narcissism,
232–233

Neri, Philip,
70

Neuhaus, Richard John,
187

Newman, John Henry,
68–69
,
70–72

Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Orwell),
97

Ninth commandment,
141

Nocturnal emissions,
147
,
153

Noldin, H.,
135
,
138
,
145

Non serviam
,
204
,
207

Norbertine Order,
183

Nuela, José,
51

Nuns

      
The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed
,
70

      
confessions by,
35
,
48–49

      
convents,
48–49
,
69–70

      
enclosure rules and Council of Trent,
48

      
rape or abduction of,
22

      
specialist confessors of,
23

Oath, Anti-Modernist,
97
,
99

Obedience

      
blind to one’s confessor,
65

      
emphasis on,
23

      
to papal authority,
207

      
Pius X and,
87

      
of wife to husband,
23

O’Brien, Edna,
117

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