The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession (39 page)

      
masturbation (
see
Masturbation
)

      
moral education of children,
143–145

      
rape,
21
,
52
,
147–148

      
seminary education and,
141–142

      
sexual sin,
6–7
,
9–10
,
119
,
141–156
,
172

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

Sexual abuse,
51–52
,
156–157
,
160–165
,
169–196

      
author’s experience with,
171–173

      
confession of abuse by priests,
189–193

      
consequences of,
170
,
180
,
195–196

      
databases of accused clergy,
182

      
failure of act by superiors,
183–184
,
186–188

      
grooming potential victims,
170–174
,
179–180

      
investigations of,
174–175
,
182

      
locations of,
175–182

Sexual revolution,
133
,
157
,
207–208

The Sexual Revolution
(Reich),
157

Sexual sin,
141–156

      
confession of,
119
,
172

      
penitential book focus on,
9–10

      
views of early Church on,
6–7

Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned
(Haliczer),
47

Shakespeare, William,
232–233

Shrines,
12
,
109

Sinistrari, Ludovico Maria (canonist),
53

Sinners

      
status and penance,
11

      
unrepentant,
5

Sin(s)

      
absolution of (
see
Absolution
)

      
categories in penitentials,
11

      
children taught about,
109–111

      
communal,
222

      
confession of (
see
Confession
)

      
grave,
17

      
meaning of term,
229

      
mental,
9–10

      
mortal (
see
Mortal sin
)

      
original,
5
,
63
,
110
,
232

      
self-idolatry,
232

      
Seven Deadly,
11
,
229

      
sexual sin,
6–7
,
9–10
,
119
,
141–156
,
172

      
social nature of,
231
,
235

      
types in handbooks for confessors,
22

      
unforgivable,
7

      
venial,
8
,
27
,
37

Sipe, A. W. Richard,
151
,
155–166
,
169

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
(Durang),
115

Six Months in a Convent
(Reed),
69

Sixth commandment,
141–142

Skellig Michael,
7

Smoking,
128–129
,
157

Smyth, Brendan,
183–184

Social teaching,
63

Society of Pius X,
235

Sodomy

      
penance for,
9

      
victims of,
14

      
by women,
52–53

Soeur Thérèse of Lisieux: The Little Flower
,
203

Sophocles,
232

Sorrow, types of,
18

Soul

      
confessors as guide,
14

      
effect of sin on,
110–111

      
killing of,
225

Soul murder,
152
,
169

Soul Murder
(Schatzman),
153

Spanish Inquisition,
46
,
47

Spark, Muriel,
199

Spee, Friedrich,
54–55

Spooner, Richard (member of Parliament),
71

Spy network, of Pius X,
93–100

St. Patrick’s Purgatory Island,
8–9

Stendhal,
73

Stone, Robert,
199

Stutz, Ulrich,
99

Suárez, Francisco (moralist),
62

Submission to authority,
23

Summa Theologiae Moralis
(Noldin and Schmitt),
135
,
138

Summas
,
18
,
21

Svevo, Italo,
199

Swift, Jonathan,
46

Tale of a Tub
(Swift),
46

Teresa of Avila,
55–57

Tertullian,
6–7

Theologia Moralis
(Liguori),
65

Thérèse of Lisieux,
132
,
203–205

This Boy’s Life
(Wolff),
114

Thomas à Becket,
13

Thomas à Kempis,
22
,
131
,
229–230

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
(Freud),
152

Timothy of Alexandria,
105–106

Tóibín, Colm,
197
,
198

Total institution,
123
,
125

Tridetine clericalism,
42

True Confessions
,
199

Tyrrell, George,
90

Udris, John,
204

Ulysses
(Joyce),
117

Urban VIII,
58

Ursuline Convent Riots (1834),
69

Usury,
215–216

Vaca, Juan,
185–186

Valdelomar, Alonso de,
29

Vatican Council of 1869–1870,
61

Venereal pleasure,
142
,
144

Venial sins

      
confession of,
8
,
37

      
Purgatory and,
27

Vianney, Jean-Marie,
73–75
,
87
,
132
,
156

Virginity,
7
,
142

Virtue,
230–231

Vitoria, Francisco de,
62

Voltaire,
66

Von Hügel, Baron Friedrich,
90

Walmsley, Kate,
181–182

Waugh, Evelyn,
198

The Way of Salvation and of Perfection (Liguori)
,
61

Wharton, Edith,
198

White, Antonia,
115

White, Joseph Blanco,
68

Wife

      
exclusion from intercourse with,
10

      
submission and obedience,
23

Wilde, Oscar,
233

William the Conqueror,
12

Wiseman, Nicholas,
71

Witchcraft,
53–55

Wolff, Tobias,
114

Women

      
confessors of,
24–26
,
29–30
,
45–51
,
66–69
,
73

      
exclusion from intercourse,
10

      
false recovered-memory syndrome,
54

      
holy women,
25
,
55–59
,
69

      
masturbation by,
52–53

      
modesty in,
144

      
patriarchal attitude towards,
124

      
as provocation to chastity,
6–7

      
sexual acts between,
52–53

      
submission and obedience,
23

      
treatment in penitential books,
10

      
witchcraft,
53–55

Wycliffe, John,
236