WHERE DID IDEA OF AURICULAR CONFESSION ORIGINATE?
The practice of auricular confession is not based on Biblical, but rather on pagan principles. Chiniquy sees the similarity of the auricular confession in light of Romanism: “Let those who want more information on that subject read the poems of Juvenal, Propertius, and Tibellus. Let them peruse all the historians of old Rome, and they will see the perfect resemblance which exists between the priests of the Pope and those of Bacchus, in reference to the vows of celibacy, the secrets of auricular confession, celebration of the so-called sacred mysteries and the unmentionable moral corruption of the two systems of religion. In fact, when one reads the poems of Juvenal, he thinks he has before him the books of Den, Liguori, Lebreyne, Kenric” (The Priest, The Woman and The Confessional, Chiniquy, 140). CONFESSION OF A YOUNG WOMAN Chiniquy,as a young priest, was confronted with the corruption of auricular confession. Early in his priesthood, he had an experience that would change him forever
