Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-10-28

sbrunk back from Blanco White and Bishop
Kemp, and their heartless associates"! But
truth and justice require Of me 10 proceed
Away then with feelings-I shall do it.-lhls
miserable man next asserts
s That he heard the confession of his eldest
sister on her death bed
g. That his Younger sister shut herself up IN
convent, where she wasnot allowed TO see her
nearest relations
10. That he OFTEN heard her confession
IL. Thatto him it was torture TO witness her
agonies at the confessional, because OF the ieais
with which her conscience was filled. \
Now ofthose eleven propositions, seven must
of necessity be papabe and deliberate false
hoodst two others are the mosti Improbable which
can conceive, and the other two, viz. those
marked |. and Z. might be Uue,
1t requires no depth Of theological learning
TO perceive the truth Of the following princl-
| ples-l. "The person who imagining, even un-
der deluson, that she is obliged by the law OF
! God, to reveal what nothing but obedience to
/ that law could induce her to reveal, makes to
her brother, under that impre Ssion, declare
ton which she is persuaded no torture could
drag from him, when he is pledged by every lie
which Heaven and earth hold solemn, TO the
most inviolable secrecy; has upon him the high
est possible claim TO preserve that secrecy,
and should he violate il, and thereby expose the
weakness Of his sister,! Can there be upon
earth more mean, and contemplate, and wick
ed wretch? 2. Suppose the whole system OF
the Catholic religion to be erroneous and delu-
si,e; is there not bond which nothing car
loose, upon him who receives from deluded
being, whom his Office brought to disclose 10
him the troubles Of her soul, that he shall pre-
serve her secrets, though lie and she were in
error when she confded in hm?-if he belrays
them, ought he ever be received into society,"
The betrayer of "a sister, religious conidence!!!
Gould White have had sister?-lmposs
ble.!-Or he knew not how brother ought to
feel "A brother in such situation!--lt Is fol-
ly to imagine one syllable of truth in the whole
narrative Nature contradicts the selfaccus-
ing hypocrite, the avowed impostor!- oligion
unites with nature in the disclaimer-A sister
to confess to her brother is next to unheard OF
in the Church of God In the medical profess
sion, there is creditable delicacy which, is a
counterpart to what exists in our Church The
intimacy Of family connection, often requires
from delicate minds that stranger shall be the
depository OF some secrets, the witness OF some
weakness, the 'healer OF some imperfections,
master of his sisters religious terrors in the
station Of her conltssor, and publish them to
the world contrary to every law of the Church,
Of nature and Of God, is only to be equalled by
him who-No, there is not miscreant on this
earth of so deep stain of iniqui,y. shall
rescue the remnant of this mans character
from his own malevoence, by proving that he
had it not in his power 10 be as great wretch
as he pretenda he was
The law ofthe Church was in full vigour In
Spain at the time to which he allud, S.
Mr.. White tells US , 1879, of bis "Evidence"
a, the age Of fve and thirty, religion, and rel-
gion alone, tole him away from his country.
Now assert, that in Spain, he never could
have been confessor to convent OF nuns, &
therefore that he was rot; and consequently, he
called God 10 witness foul falsehood In D.
40 of his Evidence.
In Doblado's letters Vol 8. Magazine,
32l Mr. White describes converts, particu-
Iarly those Of Seville. No person who had a
par icle of delicate feeling could have written
some Of the passages contained in this letter.
Take one Of the least objectio as a speci-
men
'But cannot discover the least shadow OF
reason or interest for the obstlnacy which pre-.
serves unalt6reQ the OarDafOuS laws Ftldtii'S W
the religious vows of females, unless ii be that
vile animal jealousy which persons deprived OF
the pleasures of love, are apt TO mistake Tor the
zeal of chastity: such zeal as YOU Queen T.
izabeth felt fer the purity Of her maids"
He calls the converts "Bastuies Of supersti-
ton where many a victim fingers through a
long life Of despair or insanity" He then de-
scribes the nunneries as oftwo kinds, those un-
der the jurisdiction Of the Bishop, and those
under tie jurisdiction of the Frars, the first be
says are comfortable; the latter horrible; OF the
latter there are some which are Reformed, IN
those, p. S22, the nuns see and converse with
their parents and brothers once month. ~ he
religious VOWS of the Capuchin nuns, however,
pul final end to all communication between
parents and Children AS he informs US that
his Younger sister "shut herself up in convent
where she was not allowed to see her nearest
relations" she must have become Capuchin
nun. The Capuchns are one OF The regular or
ders.-In regular nunneries no priest often hears
the confession of a nun except the regular ordi-
nary confession. BY regulation Of The 10th
Chap. session XIV of the council of Trent, an
extraordinary confessor must slit hear them
in,