The Sun. — 1852-09-04 (London, England)

XVI., who thereby command all confessors to Oblige all penitents to discover or reveal to them all the liberals who exist to their knowledge. Oh, Englishmen, Englishmen, judge you from this only fact of the wicked tendency and immoral nature of auricular confession.—(Applause.) In my poor Italy, many sisters were obliged to denounce their brothers. In my poor Italy many, many sons were obliged to denounce their fathers. And, horrible to say, many mothers were ()bilged tt denounce their sons—their dear sons—who, after a few hours, were bennd by the police, condemned to prison—nay, not unlikely, to the scaffold itself. This is the confessional in my country, and it is a system of universal espionage over all Europe. Its purpose is to suppress all aspirations for freedom, for civil and religious liberty, and for the nationality of my poor country. Oh, cruel confessional.—(Applause.) Some of the facts which I have quoted, mind you, are Irish facts. In Ireland there is a fanatic, a desperate man, that greenstockiuged angel of Tuam—(Loud applause)—Dr. who, some months ago, gave judgment upon a reserved case of reading the Bible, and his sentence went to deprive of absolution all Irishmen reading the Holy Bible. Now, take notice, my friends, in Ireland there exists a bad society, a society of murderers. liirts society called the Ribbon Society. Is it a Protestant or a Cithelic society? It is a Catholic society.— (Applause.) Answer me, priesthood of Ireland. Answer me, ye Romish bishops of Ireland, answer me.—(Loud applause.) In my country, on all the Continent, and throughout Great Britain, the opinion is that the Romittla clergy in Ireland encourage the Ribbon Society— (reehement applause)—and without the approbation of the Romish clergy the present Ribbon Society would not eft. You Romish priests, when you preach to these societies, you preach to the murderers who are among their members. You Romish priests, when you absolve members of the Ribbon Society, you absolve those who are murderers. You Realists bishops, you approve silently cf the murders committed by the Ribbon Society. It is not true, you say. Well, but we ask you to deprive of the sacrement and of absolution all the members guilty of murder belonging to the Ribbon Society; and then you will see, and the world will see, that in a few short months the Ribbon Society will fall and be extinct.—(Loud ap li plause.) If the Ribbon Society is still to exist, and to remain so great * difficulty for Parliament and the English nation—if the Ribbon Society is to continue a scandal to Christianity. you, priests of Rome, are alone responsible for it, because you are the confessors always and everywhere of its members, and you absolve the members guilty of murder belonging to te the Ribbon Society.—(Loud cheers.) Tnis is -Itnogo surely the fact. Deny it if possible. I repeat, there. is not an institution of the Church of Rome so immoral in itself, or so immoral in its effects as auricular calor confession is a game played b %Inr,fesii;ioa. Auriopes for seeming the bondage of couscience arirdrfoi the enslaving of nations.—(Cheers.) Beware, En' Without auliculer confessions you g are beware. goad Christians, arid ganorolly speakintg,epytoie3.,r population is impressed with great moral pin hcoeurentrisy.muclhf and sincere morality true -anydoauradT, ore defend and you would preserve that defend and guard yeureel yes against. confess I yourselves against auricular confession.guar( In ntessors and my dist:Acted country we have co • confession in abundance ; but we ere bigots—ore are , ete are slave's, we are the tools and .gietiili, oppressed—we of the Icquisition. Oo that God may bless your roan. try. Wiaiout almicukr confession, tri' the pour- without bg,, ; God sad ;n: ta Per tneity ok the priest between your science, you can preserve the good, anal bright, and pre. cious inheritaae, of your aneestorT-your glorious formatioc,yourogarisiran Roiormed Gtourcn.—(c aecra),