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The Dark Box

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by John Cornwell

Baptism, 5, 111

  Beguines, 25

  Bell, Rudolph, 58

  Benedict XIV, 58

  Benedict XVI, 75, 165, 187, 197

  Benigni, Umberto, 93–95

  Bernardino of Siena, 26

  Bernanos, Georges, 88, 198

  Bigotian Penitential, 10

  Bilney, Thomas, 31

  Birth control, 73

  Boff, Leonardo, 231

  Böll, Heinrich, 199

  Book of Gomorrah (Peter Damian of Ravenna), 14

  Books, forbidden, 67, 90

  Borges, José, 51

  Borromeo, Charles, 39–44, 106

  Boys, sexual abuse of. See Sexual abuse

  Bread of Dreams (Camporesi), 54

  Buckley, Christopher, 112

  Burgess, Anthony, 113, 199

  Cajetan, Thomas, 46

  Calasanz, José de, 51–52

  Calvin, John, 31

  Camporesi, Piero, 54

  Canon Law, 98–99, 129

  Canonico, Tancredi, 85–86

  The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 15, 24, 28–29

  Capilupi, Ippolito, 49

  Cardano, Girolamo, 54

  Carmelites, 51, 55–56, 132, 203

  Carvajal, Giacomo, 30

  Casti Connubii (Pope Pius XI), 206

  Castration, 156

  Catechism, 109–111

  Cathars, 16

  Catherine of Genoa, 26

  Catherine of Siena, 24

  Cautio Criminalis (Spee), 55

  Celibacy, 14, 124, 133, 155, 173

  Celibate life, 128

  Censors, 100

  Censure, 16

  Chastity

  in children, 142–143, 145

  of clergy, 133, 154, 155

  rape as sin against, 147

  virtue of, 141–143

  women as permanent provocation to, 6–7

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 15, 23, 28–29, 199

  Cherubini, Stefano, 51–52

  Children

  age of discretion, 19, 103–105

  age of first communion, 19, 83, 102–104

  age of first confession, 19, 83, 103–107

  confession of, 112–114, 116–122, 145–146, 165, 213–214

  moral education of, 143–145

  sexual abuse of, 156–157, 160–165, 169–196

  sin, teachings concerning, 109–111

  Christian democracy, 95

  Christianity, as a community, 234

  Clericalism, 58

  Cloyne Report, 182

  Code of Canon Law, 98–99, 129

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 68, 234

  Collins, Mary, 101

  Columbanus, 9–10

  Communion

  age at first, 19, 83, 102–104

  age of first confession and, 103–104

  children and, 145

  daily, 101–102

  fasting before, 113, 136–138

  first, 112–113, 213, 218

  Fourth Lateran Council decree, 17

  Pope Pius X and, 101–102

  Communism, 107

  Confession

  age at first, 19, 83, 103–107

  annual, 17–20, 37

  auricular, 8, 13, 18

  of children, 112–114, 116–122, 145–146, 165, 213–214

  communal, 210

  Council of Trent and, 35–37, 42

  criticism of, 31–32

  exploitation by Innocent III to seek out heretics, 17

  first, 112–113, 118, 213–214, 218

  Fourth Lateran Council decree, 17

  inquisitorial, 53

  investigatory, 21

  in literature and film, 198–205

  location of, 172, 175–181

  in monasteries, 14

  noncompliance with obligation, 26

  obligatory, 15, 17–19, 37, 83, 106

  potential capacity of, 228–229

  Protestant challenge to, 31

  public, 6

  questioning during, 21, 38, 53

  serviam of married Catholics and, 207–210

  sexual solicitation/abuse, 43, 169–196

  “shopping list,” 225–226

  social/communal nature of, 235

  as test of inclusion or exclusion, 37

  as trauma in childhood, 112, 113

  varieties of experiences with, 217–226

  of venial sins, 8, 37

  Confessional box

  current state of, 197

  introduction of, 39, 44–45

  in literature and film, 198, 200–201

  sexual abuse and, 45–47, 50–51

  trauma in childhood, 112

  Confessional manuals, 21

  Confessors

  burdens on, 225–226

  of children, 118–122

  of clergy committing sexual abuse, 192–194

  criminal, 28–30

  criticisms of, 14, 35

  handbooks and summas for, 18, 21–22, 32, 49

  of “holy women,” 55–58

  ignorance of, 14, 20

  Lateran Council recommendations for, 17

  number of, 126–127

  obedience to, 65

  persecution of, 32

  preparation of priests as, 65

  sexual solicitations/abuse by, 29–30, 45–52, 66, 69

  specialist, 23–24

  spiritual direction given by, 220–221

  training and regulation, 17, 42

  of women, 24–26, 29–30, 45–51, 55–58, 66–69, 73

  Conformity, in seminary life, 130–131

  Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 184, 208

  Conrad of Marburg, 24

  Conscience, examination of, 24

  Contraception, 159, 205–210, 215

  Contrition

  attrition, 36

  communal ritual of, 219

  confession and, 111, 117, 118

  Council of Trent and, 36

  Day of Atonement and, 4

  formal words of, 111

  repetitive, private in monasteries, 8

  technical language of, 117

  Convents, 48–49, 69–70

  Copleston, Frederick, 130

  Coppola, Francis Ford, 199

  Corrispondenza Romana, 94

  Council of Narbonne, 106

  Council of Trent, 33–37, 103, 198, 212

  confession and, 35–37, 42

  on contrition, 36

  enclosure rules and, 35, 48

  enforcement of decrees of, 41, 47

  influence of, 59

  location of, 34

  moral theology and, 61, 62

  Pius X and, 87

  split in Western Christendom and, 33–34

  Counter-Reformation, 49, 59

  Courtin, Judy, 170

  Cranmer, Thomas, 32

  Crashaw, Richard, 205

  Crimen Solliciationis, 186

  Custody of the eyes, 44, 57

  Cyprian, 7

  Daly, Cahal, 184

  Damnation, eternal, 5

  Dancing, 73, 74, 143

  Daniel-Rops, Henri, 204

  Dante, 232

  Dark Night of the Soul (John of the Cross), 56, 203–204

  Darwin, Charles, 89

  Davis, Charles, 123

  Davis, H., 135–136, 141–150

  Day of Atonement, 4

  Daza, Gaspar, 56

  De Cultu Feminarum (Tertullian), 7

  de Lai, Gaetano, 93

  de Lubac, Henri, 235

  Delation, 95, 96

  Deliver Us (Meneghello), 198

  Di Luciani, Geronimo, 30

  Diabolism, 53–54

  Diary of a Country Priest (Bernanos), 198

  Diderot, Denis, 68

  Discipline of the Clergy, 124

  Divine Comedy (Dante), 232

  Divorce, 222

  Donatist heresy, 41, 42

  Doyle, Roddy, 115

  Dreyfus, Alfred, 73

  Durang, Christopher, 115


  E Supremi Apostolatus (Pius X encyclical), 83–84

  Eastwood, Clint, 199

  Eco, Umberto, 199

  Editae Saepae (Pius X encyclical), 85

  Edward VI, 38

  8½ (film), 199

  Elizabeth I (queen of England), 32, 39

  Elizabeth (queen of Hungary), 24

  Epieikeia, 157–160

  Erasmus, Desiderius, 30, 36

  Eternity, concept explained to children, 116

  Eucharist

  congresses, 102

  in Counter-Reformation era, 59–60

  importance of, 218–219

  Pope Pius X and, 102–104

  in sixteenth century England, 38–39

  Evangelism, 108

  Ex opere operato principle, 41

  Excommunication

  of Henry IV, 13

  of liberal priests, 83

  obligation of confession and, 17, 20, 26, 37, 106

  use by Innocent III, 16

  Family planning, 205

  Farinacci, Prospero, 52

  Fasting

  before communion, 113, 136–138

  probabilism, 64

  violation of fast, 136–138

  The Fate of the Confession (Collins and Power), 101

  Fellini, Federico, 199

  Fenichel, Otto, 155

  First Things, 187

  First Vatican Council, 99

  A Flag at Sunrise (Stone), 199

  Flete, William, 24

  Forgiveness, 36, 224

  Fornication, 9, 22, 161

  Foucault, Michel, 116

  Fourth Crusade, 16

  Fourth Lateran Council, 16–17, 19, 32, 37, 61, 103, 106

  Franciscans, 114

  Franz Joseph, 81

  French Revolution, 66, 84

  Freud, Sigmund, 151–152, 228

  Friars, sexual abuse/solicitation by, 48

  Frost in May (White), 115

  Gasparri, Pietro, 93, 96

  Gavin, Antonio, 67–68

  Genesis myth, 232

  Gerson, Jean Charlier de, 21–22, 106

  Giussano, Giovanni, 40–41

  The Godfather, 199

  Goffman, Erving, 123, 125

  Golding, William, 233–234

  Goretti, Maria, 148, 224

  The Gospel and the Church (Loisy), 90

  Gran Torino (film), 199

  Grave sin, 17

  Greeley, Andrew, 207

  Greene, Graham, 198

  Gregory the Great, 106

  Gregory VII, 12

  Groër, Hans Hermann, 184

  Grosbard, Ulu, 199

  Guilt, 4, 24, 228

  Haliczer, Stephen, 47, 51

  Häring, Bernard, 207

  Harold, King 12

  The Heather Blazing (Tóibín), 198

  Hebblethwaite, Margaret, 117

  Hell

  children taught about, 111, 114–115, 116

  fear of, 18, 36

  modern notion of, 231–232

  Hendrickson, Paul, 179

  Henry II, 13

  Henry IV, 12–13

  Henry VIII, 30

  Heresy, 16, 17, 20–21, 38, 41–42, 91

  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

  O’Connor, Frank, 112, 116

 

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