— A Classic—Includes Active Table of Contents—Includes Religious Illustrations Justice requires that I introduce this little book with a personal acknowledgment. For more than thirty years Father Francis J. O’Boyle, S.J., taught moral theology to the Jesuits of the Middle West, as well as to many from other parts of the country, particularly the South. During this time he periodically gave little pastoral talks on the qualities of a good confessor. Those talks form the basis of and the inspiration for these chapters. And I would gladly put his name as author and mine merely as editor were it not for the fact that in my hands so much of the original has been lost and so much extraneous material added that Father O’Boyle would not recognize my finished product as his own. Aeterna Press