CHAPTER
XII.
A Chapter for the Consideration
of Legislators, Husbands, and Fathers.— Some of the Matters on which
the Priest of Rome must Question His Penitents
DENS wants the confessors to interrogate on the following
matters:
1 "Peccant uxores, quae susceptum viri semen ejiciunt, vel
ejicere conantur." (Dens, tom. vii., p. 147.)
2. "Peccant conjuges mortaliter, Si, copula ancesta, cohibeant
seminationem."
3. "Si vir jam seminaverit, dubium. fit an femina lethaliter
peccat, Si se retrahat a seminando ; aut peccat lethaliter vir non
expectando seminationem. uxoris." (P. 153.)
4. "Peccant conjuges inter se circa actum conjugalein. Debet
servari modus, sive situs ; imo ut non servetur debitum vas, sed
copula habeatur in vase praepostero, aliquoque non naturali. Si fiat
accedendo a postero, a latere, stando, sedendo, vel Si vir sit
succumbus." (P. 166.)
5. "Impotentia est incapacitas perficiendi, copulum carnalem
perfectam cum. seminatione viri in vase debito seu, de se, aptam
generationi. Vel, ut Si mulier sit nimis arcta respectu unius viri,
non respectu alterius. " (Vol. vii., p. 273.)
6. " Notatur quod pollutio in mulieribus possit perfici, ita ut
semen earum nou effluat extra membrum. genitale.
"Indicium. istius allegat Billuart, Si scilicet mulier sensiat
serninis resolutionem. cum magno voluptatis sensu, qua completa,
passio satiatur." (Vol. iv., p. 168.)
7. "Uxor se accusans, in confessione, quod negaverit debitum,
interrogetur an ex pleno rigore juris sui id petiverit." (Vol. vii.,
p. 168.)
8. "Confessor poenitentem, qui confitetur se pecasse cum
Sacerdote, vel sollicitatam. ab eo ad turpia, potest interrogare
utrum ille sacerdos sit ejus confessarius, an in confessione
sollitaverit." (Vol. vi., p. 294.)
There are a great many other unmentionable things on which Dens,
in his fourth, fifth and seventh volumes, requires the confessor to
ask his penitent, which I omit.
Now let us come to Liguori. That so-called Saint, Liguori, is not
less diabolically impure than Dens, in his questions to the women.
But I will cite only two of the things on which the spiritual
physician of the Pope must not fail to examine his spiritual
patient:—
1. "Quaerat an sit semper mortale, Si vir immitat pudenda in os
uxoris?
"Verius affirmo quia, in hoc actu ob calorem Cris, adest proximum
periculum pollutionis, et videtur nova species luxuriae contra
naturam, dicta irruminatio. "
2. "Eodem modo, Sanchez damnat virum de mortali, qui, in actu
copulae, immiteret dignitum in vas praeposterum nxoris; quia, ut
ait, in hoc actu adest affectus ad Sodomiam. " (Liguori, tom. vi.)
p. 935.)
The celebrated Burchard, Bishop of Worms, has made a book of the
questions which had to be put by the confessors to their penitents
of both sexes. During several centuries it was the standard book of
the priests of Rome. Though that work to-day is very scarce, Dens,
Liguori, Debreyne, &-c., &c., have ransacked its polluting
pages, and given them to study to the modern confessors, in order to
question their penitents. I will select only a few questions of the
Roman Catholic Bishop to the young men.
1. "Fecisti solus tecum fornicationem ut quidam facere solent;
ita dico ut ipse tuum membrum. virile in manum taum acciperes, et
sic duceres praeputium tuum, et manu propria commoveres, ut sic, per
illam delectationem semen projiceres ? "
2. "Fornicationem fecisti cum masculo intra coxes ; ita dicto ut
tuum virile membrum intra coxas alterius mitteres, et sic agitando
semen funderes ?"
3. "Fecisti fornicationem, ut quidem facere Solent, ut tuum
virile membrum in lignum perforatum, aut in aliquod hujus modi
mitteres, et, sic, per illam commotionem et delectationem semen
projiceres? "
4. "Fecisti fornicationem contra naturam, id est, cum masculis
vel animalibus coire, id est cum equo, cum vacca, vel asina, vel
aliquo, animali? (Vol. i., p. 136.)
Among the questions we find in the compendium of the Right Rev.
Burchard, Bishop of Worms, which must be put to women, are the
following (p. 115):—
1. "Fecisti quod quaedam mulieres Solent, quoddam molimem, aut
machinamentum in modum virilis membri ad mensbram Woe voluptatis, et
illud lodo verendorurn tuorum aut alterius cum aliquibus ligaturis,
ut fornacationem facereres cum aliis mulieribus, vel alia eodem
instrumento, sive alio tecum?"
2. "Fecisti quod quaedem mulieres facere Solent ut jam supra
dicto molimine, vel alio aliquo machinamento, tu ipsa. in te solam
faceres fornicationem?
3. "Fecisti quod quaseam mulieres facere Solent, quando libidinem
se vexantem exinguere volunt, quae se conjungunt quasi coire debeant
ut possint, et conjungunt invicem puerperia sua, et sic, fricando
pruritum illarum extinguere, desiderant? "
4. "Fecisti quod quaedam mulieres facere solent, ut succumberes
aliquo jumento et illiud jumentum ad coitum quolicumque, posses
ingenio, ut sic coiret tecum ? "
The celebrated Debreyne has written a whole book, composed of the
most incredible details of impurities, to instruct the young
confessors in the art of questioning their penitents. The name of
the book is "Moechialogy," or "Treaty on all the sins against the
sixth (seventh) and the ninth commandments, as well as on all the
questions of the married life which refer to them."
That work is much approved and studied in the Church of Rome. I
do not know that the world has ever seen anything comparable to the
filthy and infamous details of that book. I will cite only two of
the questions which Debreyne wants the confessor to put to his
penitent:—
Of the young men (page 95) the confessor will ask:—
"Ad cognoscendum an usque ad pollutionem se tetigerent, quando
tempore et quo fine se teti gerint an tune quosdam motus in corpore
experti fuerint, et per quantum temporis spatium; an cessantibus
tactibus, nihil insolitum et turpe accideret; an nou longe majorem
in compore voluptatem perceperint in fine tactuum quam in eorum
principio; an tum in fine quando magnam delectationem carnalem
sensuerunt, omnes motus corporis cessaverint; an non madefacti
fuerint? " &c., &c.
Of the girl the confessor will ask:—
"Quae sese tetegisse fatentur, an non aliquem puritum extinguere
entaverint, et utrum pruritus ille cessaverit cam magnum senserint
voluptatem; an tune, ipsimet tactus cessaverint ? " &c.,
&c.
The Right Rev. Kenrick, late Bishop of Boston, United States, in
his book for the teaching of confessors on what matters they must
question their penitents, has the following, which I select among
thousands as impure and damnable to the soul and body:
"Uxor quae, in usu matrimonii, se vertit, ut lion recipiat Semen,
vel statim post illud acceptum surgit 'it expellatur, lethalitur
peccat; sed opus non est ut din. resupina jaceat, quum matrix,
brevi, semen attrahat, et mox, arctissime claudatur. (Vol. iii., p.
317.)
"Pollae patienti licet se vertere, et conari ut nou recipiat
semen, quod injuria ei iminittitur; sed, exceptum, non licet
expellere, quia jam possessionein pacificam habet et baud absque
injuria natura, ejiceretur." (Tom. iii., p. 317.)
" Conjuges senes plerumque coeunt absque culpa, licet contingat
semen extra vas effundi; id enim per accidens fit ex imfirmitate
naturae. Quod Si veres adeo sint fractae 'Lit nullo sit
seminandi intra vas spes, jam nequeunt jure conjugii uti." (Tom.
iii., p. 317.)