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Rules Prove Role of Inquisition in Sex Cases

brojay April 13, 2018 Hermit's Pulpit / Surviving Babylon

As part of my on-going research into spirituality, I’ve been going over an old manual published in 1905, Theory and Practice of the Confessional, that instructed priests on how to do confessions. There’s a whole chapter on soliciting sex in the confessional, and a lot of guideline and rules. Here’s …

Holy Week Headlines

brojay March 24, 2018 Hermit's Pulpit / Surviving Babylon

Easter time brings a fresh spring crop of Church-related stories, meant, I suppose, to amuse the people during the one religious time of the year still taken seriously. Most are edifying, but among them are always a few silly and/or thought-provoking ones. Here’s a few that have come up recently: …