ISBN: 1231116986

[EAN: 9781231116982], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 60 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This histor… Plus…

[EAN: 9781231116982], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 60 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: . . . secular priests. Further, to quote Bonaventura: When a priest is in the habit of inducing people to sin in confession, the parishioners should not go to him on account of the danger to both. Many of these priests are so vicious that an honest woman fears to lose her character if she whispers secretly with one of them. 3 England, where, as a German Franciscan c. 1280 admits, 4 1 Especially Quare Fratres Minores praedicent et confessiones audiant, Opera Omnia (Quaracchi), viii. 375-85. Ibid. pp. 379, 380. Ibid. p. 381. Printed, ibid. p. 382, as an appendix to Bonaventuras treatise. the clergy behaved as clergy should, had a better record than most countries in the Middle Ages. But it is worth noting that during the later thirteenth and earlier fourteenth centuries the bishops in many dioceses made a point of insisting that the confessors to nuns should be chosen, not from the secular clergy, but from the Mendicant Orders, especially from the Minorites. 1 That the friars diminished the respect paid to the parish priest is admitted by the friars and justified by Bonaventura, who considered it a duty of the friars to protect the people from the tyranny of priests. The clergy exaggerate their rights over their subjects, . . . and if we added to this by frightening them still more and magnifying the power of the clergy over them, we should further provoke the audacity of the clergy, and take the heart out of their timid subjects. 2 The negligence or ignorance of the parish priests was perhaps the chief and most widely applicable argument brought forward on behalf of the friars. Auricular confession only became 1 Thus Archbishop Giffard, 1276, recommended the Cistercian nuns to choose friar-confessors (Regist. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<