Priest, the Woman, and the Confessional
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780766135819
Subjects: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Christianity - Catholic; Religion - Catholicism; Christianity - Catholicism
First sentence: THERE are two women who ought to be constant objects of the compassion of the disciples of Christ, and for whom daily prayers ought to be offered at the mercy-seat-the Brahmin woman, who, deceived by her priests, burns herself on the corpse of her husband to appease the wrath of her wooden gods; and the Roman Catholic woman, who, not less deceived by her priests, suffers a torture far more cruel and ignominous in the confessional-box to appease the wrath of her wafer-god.