Guide for Confessors: From the Praxis Confessarii

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from the FSSP library, courtesy Scribd user Sancrucensis

This is an excerpt from the Homo apostolicus, translation of Istruzione e pratica per un confessore (1757), his most accomplished "penitential manual".

pp. 108-10 (PDF pp. 109-11) is on how to confess (or interact with) women, citing Matthaeus de Cracovia, De modo confitendi, falsely attributed to St. Thomas: "b. Augustinus dicit: sermo brevis et rigidus cum mulieribus est habendus. Nec tamen quia sanctiores fuerint, ideo minus cavendæ. " ("St. Augustine says: one should have brief and stern conversation with women. And if they are holier, one is not to be on less gaurd with them." {The English here says: "Actually, the holier they are, the more they will attract.", which isn't exact.}).