The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession (38 page)

O’Connor, Frank,
112
,
116

On Confession: Whither the Pope Has Power to Command It
. (Luther),
32

On the Pathology and Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Spermatorrhoea
(Milton),
153

Oratorians,
59
,
70

Orgasm,
7
,
149
,
150

Original sin,
5
,
63
,
110
,
232

Ormaneto, Niccolò,
43–44

Orwell, George,
97

Osca, Gabriel de,
50

Othello
(Shakespeare),
232–233

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
(Doyle),
115

Paedophiles,
162
,
163
,
189

Papacy, loyalty to,
108

Papal authority,
91
,
98

Papal primacy,
91

Pareja, Antonio de,
29

Parish schools,
143

Pascendi
(Pius X encyclical),
91
,
97

Passionists,
114

A Path from Rome
(Kenny),
209
,
225

Paul III,
33
,
34

Paul VI,
159
,
208
,
212

Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
(Jenkins),
162

Penance

      
Ash Wednesday,
3

      
criticism of Scriptural origins of sacrament,
4–5

      
early Church and,
3–14

      
imposed on kings and princes,
12–13

      
penitential tariffs,
8–11
,
18

      
pilgrimage as,
11–12

      
substitute paid to perform,
11–12

      
tariffs,
8–11

      
waving of,
14

      
See also
Confession

Penitential books

      
described,
9–11

      
supplements to,
13–14

Penitential tariffs,
8–11
,
18

Penitents

      
confession by (
see
Confession
)

      
early Church and,
3–14

      
motives for repentance,
18

      
substitute,
11

The Penitential of St. Columbanus (penitential book)
,
9–1

Peter Damian of Ravenna,
14

Peter of Alcántara,
57

Pfeiffer, Christian,
174

Pickering, Ronald,
170

Pietas Puerilis
(Erasmus),
31

Pilgrimage,
11–12
,
109

Pincher Martin
(Golding),
233–234

Pius IV,
39
,
46

Pius IX,
65
,
84

Pius X,
79–91
,
93–98

      
beatification of,
96

      
Code of Canon Law,
98–99

      
defense of the Church by,
85–86

      
E Supremi Apostolatus
(encyclical),
83–84

      
early life of,
79–80

      
Editae Saepae
(encyclical),
85

      
election as pope,
79–81

      
fear of pollution of priesthood,
154–155

      
Jean-Marie Vianney and,
75

      
Modernism and,
88–91

      
Pascendi
(encyclical),
91

      
personal qualities of,
82

      
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux on,
203
,
204

      
seminary reform by,
83
,
86–88
,
124

      
spy-net of,
93–100

Pius XI

      
on education of youth,
144

      
encyclical on chaste marriage,
206

      
encyclical on films,
144–145

      
Jean-Marie Vianney and,
75

Pius XII

      
on Alphonsus Liguori,
65–66

      
beatification of Pius X,
96

      
canonization of Maria Goretti,
148

      
death of,
125

      
Marcial Maciel and,
185

      
rhythm method advocacy by,
206

Pole, Reginald,
34

Polka,
73

The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Wilde),
233

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Joyce),
200–202
,
204–205
,
237

Power, David N.,
101

Prádanos, Juan de,
56

Pregnancy, abstinence from intercourse during,
10

The Preservative Against Popery
(White),
68

Priest and Nun: A Story of Convent Life
,
70

Priest-holes,
39

Priests

      
confessors (
see
Confessors
)

      
education of,
42

      
ignorant/corrupt,
40–42

      
moral education of children,
143–145

      
number of,
126–127

      
scandalous behavior of,
40–41

      
sexual abuses by,
51–52

Probabilism,
64

Protestants

      
condemnation by Council of Trent,
35
,
36

      
imagination impugned,
71

      
tensions with,
108

Psychoanalysis,
228

Psychotherapy,
223

Purgatory,
27
,
109
,
114–115

Quam Singulari
(Pius X encyclical),
103–104

A Question of Conscience
(Davis)

Quietism,
64

Rahner, Karl,
236
,
238

Ramón y Cajal, Santiago,
135–136

Rampolla, Mariano,
80–81

Rape,
21
,
52
,
147–148

Ratzinger, Joseph,
184
,
211–212
,
214

Readmission to the Church,
5–6

Reconciliation

      
communal,
5–6
,
235–236

      
confession as sacrament of,
210
,
226

      
early penitents and their

      
penances,
4–14

      
exclusion from,
7

      
with God before confession,
237–238

      
during Lent,
38

      
as once-in-a-lifetime event,
5

Redemptorists,
65
,
114
,
116

Reed, Rebecca,
69

Reformation,
30

Reich, Wilhelm,
157

Relics,
11–12
,
31

Religious education,
84

Religious orders, founding of,
59

Repentance,
4
,
18

Revelations of Divine Love
(Julian of Norwich),
217

Rezzonico, Carlo,
107

Rhythm method,
206

Rigali, Justin,
183

Roman Catechism of Trent,
104

Rosary,
108–109
,
129

Ross, Joseph,
183

Russell, Bertrand,
130

Ryan Report,
182

Sacred Heart of Jesus,
59

Saints, relics of,
11–12

Salazar, Alonso de,
54

Sarto, Giuseppe.
See
Pius X

Savio, Dominic,
224

Savonarola,
26

Scapulas,
109

Schatzman, Morton,
153

Schmitt, A. (author),
135
,
138
,
145

Schreber, Daniel Gottlieb Moritz,
152
,
154
,
155

Schreber, Daniel Paul,
151–152

Scorsese, Martin,
199

Scotus, Duns,
18

Scruples,
22–23
,
120
,
146
,
147
,
159

Seal of confession,
118
,
173
,
182
,
184
,
190
,
193

Sébastien Roch
(Mirbeau),
73

Second Vatican Council (1962–1965),
65
,
91
,
135
,
159
,
208
,
211
,
234–237

      
goals of,
235

      
John XXIII and,
134

      
opposition to,
82

      
reconciliation and,
235–237

Secularisation,
84

Secularism, clergy’s resistance to the rise of,
72

Self-adulation,
232–234

Self-mortification,
8
,
24
,
25
,
74
,
156

Seminary

      
author’s experiences in,
125–139

      
daily life in,
128–132

      
derivation of term,
132–133

      
educational curriculum,
133–139

      
junior,
124
,
127–128
,
171
,
224–225

      
number of students,
125–126
,
127

      
Pius X reforms of,
83
,
86–88
,
124

      
sexology,
141–165

      
starting age for,
35

Seminary Boy
(Cornwell),
156

Serviam
,
204
,
207–210

Seven Deadly Sins,
11
,
229

Sex

      
abuse (
see
Sexual abuse
)

      
adultery,
6
,
7
,
9
,
21
,
141

      
anal intercourse,
14
,
73

      
confessions by children and,
116–120

      
contraception,
205–210
,
215

      
H. Davis and moral textbooks,
141–150

      
homosexuality,
14
,
142–143
,
208