Priests, Women, and Families

No more Systems: an Emblem--The Heart--Sex--The Immaculate--The Sacred Heart--Mario Alacoque--The Seventeenth Century is the Age of Equivocation--Chimerical Politics of the Jesu...

Desire. Terrors of the other World--The Physician and his Patient--Alternatives; Postponements--Effects of Fear in Love--To be All-powerful and Abstain--Struggles between the Sp...

Woman--The Husband does not Associate with the Wife--He seldom knows how to Initiate her into his Thoughts--What Mutual Initiation would be--The Wife Consoles Herself with her S...

The Mother--Alone for a Long Time, she can bring up her Child--Intellectual Nourishment--Gestation, Incubation, Education--The Child Guarantees the Mother, and she the Child--Sh...

Love--Love wishes to _raise_ and not absorb--False Theory of our Adversaries; Dangerous Practice--Love wishes to form an Equal who may love freely--Love in the World, in the Civ...

Everybody has seen in the Louvre Guide's graceful picture representing the Annunciation. The drawing is incorrect, the colouring false, and yet the effect is seducing. Do not ex...

Saint François de Sales was very popular in France, and especially in the provinces of Burgundy, where a fermentation of religious passions had continued in full force ever sinc...

Hitherto we have spoken of a rare exception--the life of a woman full of action, and doubly employed; as a saint and foundress, but especially as a wife, the mother of a family,...

An ingenuous and intellectual German lady told me one day that, when she came with her husband to Paris for the first time, they had wandered about in a grand but very dull quar...

REACTION OF MORALITY.--ARNAUD, 1643.--PASCAL, 1657.--BASENESS OF THE JESUITS.--HOW THEY GET HOLD OF THE KING AND THE POPE, AND IMPOSE SILENCE UPON THEIR ENEMIES.--DISCOURAGEMENT...

Plato, in his Athenian Tartuffe (the Euthyphron), put this grand moral question, "Can there be _sanctity_ without _justice_?" This question, so clear in itself but so skilfully...

_The Spiritual Guide_ of Molinos appeared at Rome in 1675. The way having been prepared for twenty years by different publications of the same tendency, highly approved of by th...

Madame Guyon was not apparently the extravagant and chimerical person that her enemies pretend, since, on her arrival at Paris from Savoy, she managed to captivate and secure, a...

Nothing throws more light upon the real character of _direction_ than the correspondence of the worthiest and most loyal of directors--I mean Bossuet. Experience is decisive; if...

MOLINOS' GUIDE;--THE PART PLAYED IN IT BY THE DIRECTOR;--HYPOCRITICAL AUSTERITY;--IMMORAL DOCTRINE.--MOLINOS APPROVED OF AT ROME, 1675.--MOLINOS CONDEMNED AT ROME, 1687.--HIS MA...

NO MORE SYSTEMS;--AN EMBLEM.--BLOOD.--SEX.--THE IMMACULATE WOMAN.--THE SACRED HEART.--MARIE ALACOQUE.--DOUBLE MEANING OF SACRED HEART.--THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IS THE AGE OF DOU...

RESEMBLANCES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SEVENTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.--CHRISTIAN ART.--IT IS WE WHO HAVE RESTORED THE CHURCH.--WHAT IT ADDS TO THE POWER OF THE PRIEST.-...

CONFESSION.--PRESENT EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG CONFESSOR.--THE CONFESSOR IN THE MIDDLE AGES:--FIRST, BELIEVED; SECONDLY, MORTIFIED HIMSELF; THIRDLY, WAS SUPERIOR BY CULTURE; FOURTH...

When I reflect on all that is contained in the words _confession_ and _direction_, those simple words, that immense power, the most complete in the world, and endeavour to analy...

If spiritual dominion be really of the spirit, if the empire over thought be obtained by thought itself, by a superiority of character and mind, we must give way; we have only t...

ON CONVENTS--OMNIPOTENCE OF THE DIRECTOR.--CONDITION OF THE NUN FORLORN AND WATCHED.--CONVENTS THAT ARE AT THE SAME TIME BRIDEWELLS AND BEDLAMS.--INVEIGLING.--BARBAROUS DISCIPLI...

If we believe politicians, happiness consists in reigning. They sincerely think so, since they accept in exchange for happiness so much trouble and so many annoyances; a martyrd...

DESIRE.--ABSORPTION AND ASSIMILATION CONTINUED.--TERRORS OF THE OTHER WORLD.--THE PHYSICIAN AND THE PATIENT.--ALTERNATIVES.--POSTPONEMENTS.--THE EFFECTS OF FEAR IN LOVE.--TO BE...

SCHISM IN FAMILIES.--THE DAUGHTER;--BY WHOM EDUCATED.--IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION, AND THE ADVANTAGE OF THE FIRST INSTRUCTOR.--INFLUENCE OF PRIESTS UPON MARRIAGE, WHICH THEY OFTEN...

WOMAN.--THE HUSBAND DOES NOT CONSOCIATE WITH HIS WIFE.--HE SELDOM KNOWS HOW TO INITIATE HER INTO HIS THOUGHTS.--WHAT MUTUAL INITIATION WOULD BE.--THE WIFE CONSOLES HERSELF WITH...

THE MOTHER.--ALONE, FOR A LONG TIME, SHE CAN BRING UP HER CHILD.--INTELLECTUAL NOURISHMENT.--GESTATION, INCUBATION, AND EDUCATION.--THE CHILD GUARANTEES THE MOTHER.--THE MOTHER...

LOVE.--LOVE WISHES TO RAISE, NOT TO ABSORB.--THE FALSE THEORY OF OUR ADVERSARIES, AND THEIR DANGEROUS PRACTICE.--LOVE WISHES TO FORM FOR ITSELF AN EQUAL WHO MAY LOVE FREELY.--LO...