“[T]he grand object in requiring the candidates for initiation to make confession to the priest of all their secret faults and shortcomings and sins, was just to put them entirely in the power of those to whom the inmost feelings of their souls and their most important secrets were confided?”*
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*Hislop, Alexander. The Two Babylons: The Only Fully Complete 7th Edition! (p. 23). CrossReach Publications. Kindle Edition.
Alexander Hislop (1807 - 13 March 1865) was a Free Church of Scotland minister known for his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church. .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hislop