id. "Why is confession ordained?"--"To humble the
sinner.. . "--"Why again?"--"To submit one's self to the power of the
Keys and to the judgment of the priests who have the power to punish and
remit sins."]

[Footnote 5336: Bossuet, ibid., Catechisme de Meaux, VI., 140-142.]

[Footnote 5337: "Manreze du pretre," by Father Caussette, I., 37.
"Do you see that young man of twenty-five who will soon traverse the
sanctuary to find the sinners awaiting him? It is the God of this earth
who sanctifies him... Were Jesus Christ to descend into the confessional
he would say, Ego te absolvo. He is going to say with the same
authority, Ego te absolvo. Now this is an act of the supreme power;
it is greater, says Saint Augustin, than the creation of heaven and
earth."--T. W. Allies, "Journal d'un voyage en France," 1845, p.97.
"Confession is the chain which binds all Christian life."]

[Footnote 5338: "Manreze du pretre," I., 36. "The Mother of God
has undoubtedly more credit than you, but she has less authority.
Undoubtedly, she accords favors, but she has not given one single
absolution."]

[Footnote 5339: Could one imagine that Stalin, that that apostate former
student expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary, would, on reading
Taine's text, have conceived the idea of having communist missionaries,
directed by the KGB in Moscow, direct an army of agents inside the
capitalist world? (SR.)]

[Footnote 5340: Like a central committee of the communist party? (SR.)]

[Footnote 5341: Praelectiones juris canonici, I., 101. "The power
entrusted to St. Peter and the apostles is wholly independent of the
community of believers."]

[Footnote 5342: Here Lenin pretended to install the Proletariat and
announced its (his own) dictatorship. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5343: Here we have a clear model for an International
Communist Party, tasked with the creation of a visible organization
whenever this is possible, but with an invisible structure of
missionaries, recruiters, controllers, policemen and agents, since any
bourgeois state must, once it discovers the party's true aims, forbid it
and drive it underground. To the Christian dream of an eternal life in
heaven or hell, the communist movement has its promise of a millenary
on earth contrasted by the immediate annihilation of any traitor or
dangerous opponent. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5344: "Cours alphabetique et methodique du droit canon," by
Abbe Andre, and "Histoire generale de Eglise, vol. X