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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Vices of Convents and Monasteries, Priests and Nuns - -Author: Thos. E. Watson - -Release Date: November 23, 2017 [EBook #56041] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICES OF CONVENTS, MONASTERIES *** - - - - -Produced by Turgut Dincer, Martin Pettit and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from images made available by the -HathiTrust Digital Library.) - - - - - - -+-------------------------------------------------+ -|Transcriber's note: | -| | -|Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | -| | -+-------------------------------------------------+ - - -THE INEVITABLE CRIMES OF CELIBACY: - -THE -VICES OF CONVENTS -AND MONASTERIES, -PRIESTS AND NUNS - -_By_ - -THOS. E. WATSON - -_Author of "The Story of France," "Napoleon," "Life and -Times of Andrew Jackson," "Life and Times of Thomas -Jefferson," "The Roman Catholic Hierarchy," Etc._ - - -THOMSON, GA.: -1916. - - -Press of -THE JEFFERSONIAN PUB. CO. -Thomson, Ga. - - - - -The Inevitable Crimes of Celibacy: The Vices of Convents and -Monasteries, Priests and Nuns. - - - - -CHAPTER I. - - -When any species of wrong-doing can wear the disguise of righteousness, -the blindest among us can see how dangerous that kind of crime may -become--how hard to prove, punish and put down. - -There are immense Arabian plains where nomad robbers have practised -their profession, from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to -the contrary; yet those plains and the nomad bands that pitch their -tents beneath the Oriental sun remain very much as they were in the days -of Abraham. - -But where robbery has disguised itself _as Law_, and one class has aimed -the law-making machine at the others, saying "_Stand and deliver!_" -whole regions have become deserts, and great peoples have been blotted -out. - -In fact, the highwayman, the cattle-lifter and the pickpocket have never -in the least affected the destinies of nations. The pirate and the -buccaneer have never been able to destroy the commerce of the seas, -beggar provinces, and change noble harbors into neglected pools. - -It is when the robbers intrench themselves in Parliaments, Reichstags -and Congresses, and the robbery takes the form of "Law," that spoliation -becomes destructive. Bank laws and money-contraction laws beat down more -victims than armies. Protective Tariff "laws," infinitely more ruinous -than all the Lafittes and Captain Kidds, drive the American flag from -the seas, while on land they make a thousand Rockefellers, Carnegies, -Morgans, Guggenheims, McCormicks and Armours, at the same time that they -are casting millions of the despoiled out of house and home. - -There are realms where religious mendicancy keeps to the primitive forms -of the beggar's bowl and pouch. It is the free-will offering. - -In these countries of voluntary tributes, religious feeling has branched -into the fewest channels, has lost the least of its original force, and -maintains today its most impregnable position. But where the priestly -caste was able to intrench its mendicancy in Law, and arrogantly say to -the laity, "_Pay me one-tenth of all thou hast!_" religion was first to -well-nigh lose its beauty and its strength, and like, the Rhine, almost -disappear into the intricate morasses of subdivisions. - -Ten thousand virulent disputes about tithes ushered in the diabolisms of -the French Revolution; and many of my readers will remember how Charles -Dickens, when a Parliamentary reporter, dropped his pencil in tears, -unable to go on, as Daniel O'Connell described one of the tragedies of a -tithe-riot in Ireland. - -When Religion went forth as Christ sent it forth, _it demanded nothing -for the priest_. Yet, the same religion, organized into an episcopacy, -afterwards wrote the tax of one-tenth upon the statute-book, and sold -the widow's cow to pay the priest for his prayer. In those days, it must -have been a gruesome spectacle as the burly parson, a picture of -physical fullness, stood in the background, personifying Law and -Religion, while the bailiff raided the cotter's wretched premises, -pounced upon pigs and poultry, or dragged household goods off to public -sale. Yet, during centuries of outrage, pain and starvation, this sort -of robbery disguised itself with _a double domino of Law and Religion_. - -Forgive me, if I digress briefly to mention how vividly I was reminded -of all this, by the thrifty, business-like manner in which Bishop P. J. -Donohue, of Wheeling, West Virginia, sold out a laboring man, S. W. -Hawley, _for rent_, in the year of our Crucified Lord, 1913. - -To satisfy the debt due to this most worshipful Bishop of God, the -following personal property was seized, and advertised for sale, to-wit: -3 bed springs and 3 beds, 3 mattresses, 1 stove, 2 tables, 10 chairs, 3 -pictures, 1 broom, 4 comforts, 2 blankets, 3 quilts, 4 pillows, and some -dishes. - -(It was further stated that Hawley's back was broken, while working in -the coal mines.) - - -George Alfred Townsend, who was so well known to journalism as "Gath," -wrote a novel which he called "The Entailed Hat." The book would have -lived gloriously, had it not been for the hat: the sternly absurd -conditions which this idea about the Entailed Hat fastened upon the -author, killed his novel. - -But there was in it one passage which lingers yet in my recollection, -after the lapse of more than 30 years. There were two brothers, shrewd, -pushing, flinty Jews, who drove hard bargains, hard collections, and -filled a store-room with household plunder sold for debt, and bought in -by the Jews, to be resold at a profit. "Gath" gave tongue to each -article of this pitiful domestic furniture, torn from the homes of the -poor, and auctioned at public outcry. - -The old rickety cradle spoke of the babes that had lain in it, and of -the mother-songs that had been sung over it, as the foot which moves the -world softly pedalled the wooden rockers. - -The loom and the spindle had their stories to tell: the table and the -dishes spoke of the plain meals and unpretentious hospitalities of the -lowly: the chairs remembered the humble hearth and fireside, and many a -circle of bright faces they had helped to form around the cheerful glow -of the burning logs. - -The silent clock, with no life of moving hands on its dust-covered face, -spoke of how the short and simple annals of the poor had been measured -by it, how it had timed the marriage and the funeral, the birth and -death; and how it had missed the toil-hardened hands that used to wind -it up, every night. - -And so on--the dirge of the Household Goods! - -As my eye ran over the items of the poor man's goods ordered to sale for -the most worshipful Bishop Donohue--the consecrated disciple of Christ -who didn't even have as much of a home as the foxes and the birds--I -_might_ have thought of one or two blistering passages in the glorious -old Code of Moses; I _might_ have recalled some of the bitterest of the -words of Jesus Christ, against those rich, haughty, unmerciful lordlings -who grind the faces of the poor. - -But I did not: on the contrary, that passage in "Gath's" novel rose out -of the mist of 30 years, and brought back the plaintive lament of the -household goods, seized, carried away, and sold into strange hands to -pay a trifling debt. "Gath," following literary tradition, most -canonically chose _Jews_ to act as shylocks: it would never have -occurred to him that a consecrated Bishop of Jesus Christ could sell the -poor Christian's blanket off the bed, sell the bed itself, sell the -table at which the family ate, and the chairs that they sat on. Not -only the mattress on which the tired limbs of labor stretched themselves -to rest, and the pillows upon which the aching head had lain, but the -very broom which swept the floor, had to be seized to satisfy the rent -of this godly landlord, _the Bishop of a homeless Christ_! - -To make this picture perfect, the family Bible ought to have been levied -on--and this Catholic Bishop ought to have bought it in. Having acquired -the Book in that manner, a natural curiosity might have prompted him to -read it. - -One thing, however, the most worshipful Bishop might yet do: he might -take the proceeds of the sale of Hawley's beds, mattresses, pillows, -stove, dishes, comforts, blankets, chairs and broom--and contribute the -whole sum to Foreign Missions. - - * * * * * * * - -"Thou shalt not commit adultery!" - -All Christians take their laws and their religion more or less from the -Jews. Who the Jews took it from, is another question. Skeptical scholars -say that they took it from the older peoples of the East, of the Nile, -the Euphrates: orthodox Christianity maintains that they took it by -revelation direct from Jehovah. Therefore, every sect in Christendom -stands committed to the proposition that God Almighty, clothed in all -His terrors, with the clouds darkening the skies, the thunders for His -heralds and the lightenings for the flaming swords that went before His -face, came down to Sinai, and wrote upon the everlasting tablets, - -"_Thou shalt not commit adultery!_" - -(Doway Bible: Deut. xx:14. I will hereafter use this Roman Catholic -version as the true one, thus avoiding any dispute with papists as to -the accuracy of my quotations.) - -In this Doway, or Douay, a version of the Book, we are somewhat patly -told that the first thing which Adam did, after having been dispossessed -of Eden, was to know "Eve his wife, who conceived and brought forth -Cain, saying, I have gotten a man through God." - -Then she brought forth Abel; and before six other verses are ended, we -learn that the brothers are at enmity because of religion, and that one -has killed the other. - -How Adam and Eve were to have propagated the human race, had Eve not -listened to the snake; or whether they were to have propagated it at -all, is a mystery which our finite minds were evidently not expected to -fathom. Nevertheless, Saint Augustine made a heroic effort to answer -the riddle; and his classic theological work, "The City of God," -contains his theory, still discreetly veiled in the original Latin, -which, being interpreted, is considerably nastier than any other English -that I ever perused in a classical theological work. - -The first occupation of Adam outside of Paradise ought to have some -weight with us, as a time-honored precedent. That wicked mankind, and -Noe came out of the Ark, together with all those animals, birds, -reptiles, &c., the very first command given him was, that he and his -family should increase and multiply. Apparently, their obedience to this -command was so prompt and effective that the Lord never reproached him -or his descendants for any neglect of duty in that particular. - -"And God blessed Noe and his sons: and said unto them, Increase and -multiply, and fill the earth." - -It is true that Noe got drunk, soon after this; but the diligent -casuists, who follow every perilous passage in the Douay Bible with -their indefatigable notes, tell us that Noe did not commit a sin by -getting drunk, "because he knew not the strength of it," the wine. - -(Thus does ignorance excuse the sinner, when the casuists need the -defense.) - -And through the Mosaic Code, breathes the same spirit and purpose: it -can fairly be summed up in the phrase, _Thou shalt marry_! - -Every encouragement is given to wedlock and to large families: polygamy -itself, had its _reason_, in those hot climates where puberty is reached -at so early an age, and where the child-bearing woman is so quickly aged -into unfitness for mating with the robust husband. It was partly because -the Mosaic law gave so little excuse for immorality, that adultery was -so cruelly punished. And the vigor of the Jewish type, for so many -centuries, amid so many barbarous persecutions, and in spite of such -wide geographical dispersions, is the most splendid monument to the -eternal wisdom of the command-- - -_Marry! Increase and multiply! Fill the earth with lawfully begotten -children! Honor the Home! Preserve your Race! Do not breed -promiscuously! DO NOT MONGRELIZE!_ - -In short, - -"_Do not commit adultery._" - -As Moses minutely regulated the patriarchal household, making the nomad -Jew's wife the queen of his tent, so Paul the Apostle carefully -instructed the model priest, admonishing him to be content with one -wife, and to be watchful over the conduct of his family, "having his -children in subjection with all chastity." - -(I may add that St. Paul lays down the law in a manner that condemns the -Christian bishops who sell out their humble fellows who are unable to -pay rent and tithes.) - -The priests of Assyria and of Egypt were married men. The priests of the -Jews were married men: the priests of the Romans were married men. The -Bishops, or Popes, of Rome were married men, during the first four -hundred years after Christ. - -(See Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport's "Love Affairs of the Vatican," 3rd -Edition, 1912, p. 9.) - -Let no one misunderstand me: I freely admit that there are exceptional -men and women who voluntarily choose the unmarried life. There have -always been such exceptions to the rule, and there probably always will -be: the reasons need not be discussed. - -Those reasons do not necessarily imply a lack of virility: some men -simply prefer not to take a wife; some women just naturally fear the -loss of independence, or they never meet the King who will take no -denial, or they nobly burden their lives with duties which demand -self-sacrifice. - -The six Vestals of old Rome were _voluntary_ celibates: such men as -Paul, Ben Zoma, Montaigne, Spinoza, were _voluntary_ bachelors. It might -have been far happier for John Wesley, Thomas Carlyle, and John Ruskin, -had they persisted in the single state. - -But _enforced_ spinsterhood and bachelorhood, is a frightfully different -thing. To say to men and women who have taken certain "vows," that they -shall never seek happiness in marriage, never escape mental and physical -longing and anguish, because of such "vows," _is to put the selfish will -of an earthly priesthood above the will of God_. - -It is impossible to conceive of a crucifixion of humanity more -unnatural, more indefensible, and more necessarily horrible in its -consequences. - -_Enforced_ celibacy in normal priests, simply means adultery, hidden -behind walls and disguised _as religion_. Therefore, when adultery has -to be tolerated, as an incident to a certain form of Christianity, the -crime eludes the law, the illicit intercourse of the sexes identifies -itself with a religious system, and it becomes as impossible to control -as does the robber who gains control of the machinery of government. -When the robber is _the Law_, who is to punish the criminal? When -adultery is elevated into a system which is recognized as a religion, -who is to punish the adulterer? - -Robbery enthroned in the law, and advancing its demands too far, has to -be dealt with by revolutions. Thus it was in England, when the Great -Charter was won. Thus it was in the Revolution of 1688. Thus it was in -Switzerland, in France, in the American Colonies, in Italy, in Germany, -and even in Spain and Portugal--not to mention South America, and -Mexico. - -Adultery, _interwoven in a religious system_, was one of the -main-springs of the Revolution in Germany, in England, in Holland and in -the States of the libertine Popes, themselves. - -The enormous popular support given to Calvin, Luther, and Knox, to Henry -VIII., to Garibaldi, to Bolivar, and to Juarez, was largely fanned and -fed by the intense wrath of the people against the pope-protected -immorality of the priests--_the adultery which could not be punished -because it was interwoven into the system of popery_. - -The Popes could not punish the priests, because the Popes were equally -criminal. The system required celibacy: the system was against the law -of God: _the system gave the priest absolute power over women, and -secret access to them_. The system needed the unmarried priest, and the -system had to pay the price. _The adultery of the priest_ had to be -cloaked and tolerated, for the simple reason that it _was incidental and -inseparable_. - -But who made the system? Not God, nor the Bible, nor the Apostles, nor -the early Fathers of the Primitive Church: the system was peculiarly the -work of Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII. - -It was this Pope who formulated the dogma of universal dominion. - -It was Gregory who said that, "The world derives its light from two -sources, the sun and the moon, the former symbolizing the Papacy, the -latter the Civil State." - -In Gregory's mind, the entire Christian world was his Empire. The -temporal Princes were his vassals, every Kingdom of Europe was his -fief, every crown, his to give and to take away. The keys of Heaven and -of Hell were in his hands; he was the Infallible representative of -Jehovah; and when he spoke, nations must shout, "_The voice of the Pope, -is the voice of God!_" - -To defend such a power and advance its banners, a disciplined and -devoted soldiery was necessary: hence, the priests who could not take -wives and have children. A family would _divide their allegiance_. -Hence, also, the convent and the confessional, to furnish an outlet to -the ungovernable natural desires of full-sexed men. - -During the three frozen winter days of 1077, when a barefooted Emperor -of Germany stood outside the castle-gate at Canossa, in the snow, this -Gregory VII. spent the time inside with his Mistress, the Countess -Matilda of Tuscany. When the Pope finally professed himself satisfied -with the Emperor's penitence and submission, he figuratively placed his -foot upon the Emperor's neck. The Church had conquered the Civil State. -The priest was above the King. To Cæsar nothing was left, save what the -Pope might graciously concede. The things that had been Cæsar's, _in -Christ's time_, were now the Pope's. Thus, the Fisherman not only wore -one crown, but three, the tiara. He was lord of Earth, lord of Heaven, -lord of Hell. - -Under the Gregorian theory, God had become a silent partner in the -government of Creation, oppressed by the logical necessity of endorsing -every decree of the Infallible Italian priest. Jehovah was become a sort -of _Roy Faineant_: the Italian Pope was Mayor of the Palace. To vary the -illustration, the Almighty was become a King of England, and the Pope, -Prime Minister. What the Premier tells the King to say, the King says; -and then the Premier assures the world that what he has told the King to -say is, "the King's speech." - - * * * * * * * - -In the palace of the Popes themselves, what was the result of celibacy? - -Dr. Angelo Rappoport, of Rome, Italy, says in his book, published in -1912: - -"For centuries the history of the Roman Pontiffs reminds one of the most -depraved times of Athens and pagan Rome, rather than of Bethlehem and -Jerusalem. - -Courtesans, famous for their talent and their beauty, their intrigues, -and their gallant love affairs, ruled the Church and disposed of the -tiara. They raised and deposed the Pontiffs, imprisoned and assassinated -them. * * * Their beds became the pedestals from which their lovers -ascended the Pontifical throne. - -All these Popes were imitating the mode of life of the Saracens, to whom -they were paying tribute, and like true heroes of a seraglio, these -chiefs of Christendom died by poison or strangulation. They committed -follies worthy of Oriental despots, and vied in their debaucheries with -the Emperors of pagan Rome. Pope John XXII. ordained priests in a -stable, and swore by Bacchus and Venus." (John the 22nd Papa of that -name, began his Vicarship of God in the year 1316.) - -Cardinal Baronius exclaims, - -"Those infamous prostitutes ruled Rome, and their creatures and lovers -sat on the throne of St. Peter." - -Bernard de Morlaix, monk of Cluny, writes in the 12th century, - -"Rome is the impure city of the hunter Nimrod: piety and religion have -fled its walls. - -Alas! the Pontiff, or rather the King of this odious city of Babylon, -treads under foot the sanctity of the Gospel and the morality of -Christ." - -Matthew Paris, the historian of the 13th century, says: - -"The holy city has become a place of infamy, whose lewdness surpass even -that of Sodom and Gomorrha." - -So universal was the scandal caused by the bestial vices of the Popes -and the Italian cardinals that the Catholic Parliament of England -refused to allow Pope Innocent IV. to come to the British Court. Why? -Because, as the House of Commons roundly declared, "the Papal Court -spreads such an abominable odor that it should not be permitted in -England." - -(This was the Catholic Parliament of the Catholic King, Henry III., 13th -century.) - -Let me quote the brutally frank _words of a Pope_-- - -"Whoever," writes Pius II., "has not felt the fire of love is either a -stone or a beast. - -Who is it, at the age of thirty, that has not committed a crime for the -sake of love? - -Many women have I courted and loved: and as soon as I had possessed -them, I was filled with loathing for them." - -(The Infallible Pius II. lived in the 15th century.) - -Inasmuch as the courtesans raised one boy of eighteen, and another of -twelve, to the "throne of Saint Peter," you can imagine what sort of -lives they led in that gilded brothel, the Pope's palace. - -(Pope John XII. was 18 years of age. Pope Benedict IX. was a lad of 12 -years. Both were monsters of lust.) - -This being the general picture of the Popes, _after_ they quit taking -wives, we are not surprised to learn that their mistresses and their -bastards were as well known, and as socially respectable, as those of -the kings and emperors, who married because it was a duty, and -Lotharioed because they found pleasure in it. The illegitimate children -of the Vicars of Christ were as undenied and undeniable as were those of -Henry of Navarre, Augustus of Saxony, Louis XIV. of France, and Charles -II., of England. Don John of Austria, was not more proudly the "woods -colt" of Charles V. of Germany, than was Cæsar Borgia the son of His -Holiness, Alexander VI. The Duke of Berwick was not better known as the -bastard of James II. and Arabella Churchill, than were two of the -reigning belles of Rome, not many years ago, recognized as the winsome -daughters in the flesh of His Holiness, Pope Pius IX. - -To complete the picture, history tells us that Pope John XII., who was -made God-on-earth at the age of eighteen, met his death by the hand of -an outraged husband, at the age of twenty-five. The furious husband -broke into the Pope's bed-room, in the Lateran palace, and slew the -adulterer in the arms of the faithless wife. - -Even Platina mentions this horrible fact, in his Lives of the Popes, -written at the request of Pope Sixtus IV., and published in the year -1479. - -Platina was a devout Catholic and was Superintendent of the Vatican -Library, Rome, Italy. - -In the biography of Petrarch by Jerome Equarciafico, we learn that this -poetic dawn-bird of the Renaissance had a beautiful sister, named -Selvaggia. Upon this lovely girl, Pope Benedict XII. looked with the -eyes of desire. He made infamous proposals to Petrarch, while the poet -scornfully rejected. Then His Holiness caused it to be whispered to -Petrarch that the Inquisition felt inclined to question him concerning -the orthodoxy of his faith. "The Question," meant torture, and Petrarch -fled from Avignon for his life. But a younger brother of Selvaggia was -more of "a man of the world," as the world went in those days of -all-powerful popery; and this brother gave ear to the Pope's temptings. -By his connivance, the girl was seized one night, as she slept, and -carried into the bedroom of the Vicar of Christ. - -When this girl of sixteen realized what was intended, she fell on her -knees, and piteously begged the Pope, the Holy Father, to take pity on -her. - -The raging lusts of the Pope were only maddened the more by the sight -and the touch of her charms, and he threatened her with eternal -damnation if she persisted in her obstinacy. The weeping, despairing -child _did_ persist, and "_he had recourse to force_" - -("Love Affairs of the Vatican." Page 154.) - - * * * * * * * - -Petrarch, as I have said, may be fairly regarded as the dawn-bird of the -Renaissance, that marvellous Easter of Literature, when European -_Intellect_, which popery had buried and set the soldiers of the -Inquisition to guard, heard the golden trumpet of Resurrection sounded -by the Byzantine scholars--fleeing from Moslem invasion--and threw off -the shroud of a degrading superstition, defied the terrors of the stupid -fanatic, and said to all the world-- - -"_I will be free again, even though I die for it._" - -Petrarch was the purest of ten thousand pure, a lover who lived in the -glory of the sentiment, without even the temptation to plunge the sacred -torch into the stream of sensuality--a poet who sang as the bird sings, -because Nature put music in his brain and heart and throat. - -Petrarch was a devout Christian; and to be a Christian at that time, -meant to be a Catholic. You may be sure that it was no heretic whom the -Romans publicly honored in Rome, in the year 1342, and crowned with the -laurels that Virgil had not worn more worthily. - -Surely, Petrarch's description of the Pope's morals and the Papal Court -will not be spurned as the libel of an abominable heretic. - -"You find there the terrible Nimrod, Semiramis, armed * * * the -scandalous monument of the most infamous amours. - -Confusion, darkness and horror, vice and crime dwell within these -precincts. I am only describing to you what I have seen with my own -eyes. - -The hope of future life is looked upon as a vain illusion--what is -being told of hell as a mere fable. * * * Love of truth is considered -eccentricity; chastity, prudishness. Licentiousness is considered -broadness of soul, whilst prostitution here leads to fame and prestige. -The more vice one accumulates, the greater the glory. Virtue is -considered ridiculous. * * * - -I shall not speak of violation, rape, adultery and incest. _They are -trifles at the Pontifical Court._ - -I shall not relate that the husbands whose wives have been abducted, -_are forced to silence and exile_. * * * I shall not dwell upon the -cruel insult by which the outraged husbands are being compelled to -receive in their houses _their wives who had been prostituted, -especially when they carry in their wombs the fruit of the criminal -love_." - -Great God! What a picture of the Papal Court! - -Petrarch adds, "The people are quite aware of everything I know myself." - -The people knew; the people murmured: the people were helpless. -_Adultery had interwoven itself into the very fabric of religion_; and -the people saw no way to attack the adulterers without being accused of -heresy and delivered to the terrible Inquisition. - -Luther had not yet come. When he _did_ come, the adulterers said that he -was not only a heretic, but a drunkard and a libertine! - - -William Hogan was born in Ireland, and was educated for the priesthood -at Maynooth College. Coming to America to follow his calling, he was so -shocked by what he learned, in the Confessional and otherwise, that he -abandoned popery in utter disgust. - -When he landed on our shores, he brought with him letters of -introduction to DeWitt Clinton of New York. So favorably was he received -that he was elected Chaplain of the New York legislature, unanimously. -Therefore, he was not a man with a grievance. Every selfish instinct -warned him to remain in the service of popery. It was his native honesty -and his horror of imposture that caused him to rebel. Afterwards, he -published books which reached an immense circulation prior to the Civil -War, but which were forgotten in that shock of armies. They are now -seldom seen even in the catalogues of Old Book stores. - -To that splendid gentleman, Dr. John N. Taylor, of Crawfordville, -Indiana, I was indebted for a copy of the edition of 1856. The volume -contains Hogan's book on "Popery," and also his "Auricular Confession -and Popish Nunneries." - -On page 247, Ex-Priest William Hogan says, in reference to the popish -school-teachers, so numerous now in our Protestant schools-- - -"These ladies, when properly disciplined by the Jesuits and priests, -become the best teachers. But before they are allowed to teach, there is -no art, no craft, no species of cunning, no refinement in private -personal indulgences, or no modes or means of seduction, in which they -are not thoroughly initiated. - -I may say with safety, and from my own personal knowledge through the -Confessional, that _there is scarcely one of them who has not been -herself DEBAUCHED BY HER OWN CONFESSOR_. - -The reader will understand that every nun has a confessor; and here I -will add, for the truth must be told at once, that _every confessor has -a concubine, and there are very few of them who have not several_." - -Remember that this fearful charge against celibacy was made in 1856, in -the edition of Hogan's work which was the 76th thousand. Therefore, the -ex-priest who had brought the best letters of introduction from Europe, -and who had been unanimously elected Chaplain of the New York -legislature, had hurled this hideous indictment at popery and its priest -76,000 times. - -What answer was made to him? _None!_ - -They furiously abused him, but did not dare to either prosecute or -reply. He had been a priest, and he knew too much. - -_Popery has never dared to prosecute an ex-priest, or an ex-nun, where -there was any chance to lift the veil that conceals the rottenness of -life inside the convents, and the monasteries._ - -After quoting Michelet and Courier and Llorente on the inevitable -lasciviousness and depravity necessarily resulting from denying the -priests the right to marry, William Hogan proceeds-- - -"Shall the cowl shelter the adulterous monk in this land of freedom? Are -the sons of freemen to countenance, nay, asked to build impassible walls -around a licentious, lecherous, profligate horde of foreign priests and -monks, who choose to come among us, and erect a little _fortification_, -which they call nunneries for their protection? - -"Shall they own, by law and charter, places where _to bury_, hidden from -the public eye, _the victim of their lust, AND THE MURDERED OFFSPRING OF -THEIR CONCUPISCENCE_?" - -Speaking of Albany, New York, Rev. Hogan, on page 268, of "Nunneries," -says-- - -"As soon as I got settled in Albany, I had of course to attend to the -duty of Auricular Confession; and in less than two months found that -those three priests, during the time they were there, were the fathers -of between 60 and 100 children, besides having debauched many who had -left the place previous to their confinement. - -Many of these children were by married women, whose husbands and -brothers, and relatives were ready, if necessary, to wade knee-deep in -blood for the _holy immaculate infallible church of Rome_." - -And why were these American Catholics willing to wade in blood for -popery? Because they did not know the truth about it. - -The same reason holds good today; and that's the reason the priests are -frantically trying to violate our Constitutional right of free speech -and free press. - -_Above all things_, the priests dread the day when American fathers, -husbands, sons and brothers find out _what it is_, that these devilish -priests claim they have a right _to say, and to do_, in their secret -intercourse with Catholic wives, sisters and daughters. - -_The priests will murder any man, if they can, to prevent HIM from -uncovering THEM._ - -On page 283, Hogan continues-- - -"Priests, nuns, and confessors are the same now that they were -then--15th century--all over the world. - -Many of you have visited Paris, and do you not see there a lying-in -hospital attached to every nunnery in the city? The same is to be seen -in Madrid, and the principal cities of Spain. - -I have seen them myself in Mexico, and in the city of Dublin, Ireland. - -What is the object of these hospitals? _It is chiefly to provide for the -illicit offspring of priests and nuns, and such other unmarried females -as the priests can seduce through the confessional._ - -But, it will be said, there are no lying-in hospitals attached to the -nunneries in this country. True, there are not; but I know from my own -experience, _through the confessional_, that it would be well, if there -were. - -_There would be fewer abortions; there would be fewer infants strangled -and murdered._ - -It is not generally known to Americans that the crime of procuring -abortion, is a common, everyday crime in popish nunneries. - -It is not known to Americans, that strangling and putting to death -infants, is common in nunneries throughout this country. - -_It is done systematically and methodically, ACCORDING TO POPISH -INSTRUCTIONS._" - -The modus operandi is this--and then the ex-priest describes how the -priest, the father of the child, baptises it, and thus insures its -passage to Heaven, as per popish belief; and how the abbess, or Mother -Superior, then shuts off the breath of the babe, at the nose: after -which the poor little body is thrown into the lime-pit to be consumed. - -Father Hogan also describes how the priests and monks give desired -children to wives whose husbands are not productive. The woman is easily -led to believe that God's will is enlisted in her behalf, and that He -has commissioned the priest to accomplish what the husband failed at: -_result_, happy wife, bouncing babe, rapturous husband, chuckling -priest. - -Father Hogan _tells it all_; and the rancorous papists never dared to -hale him into court! - - - APPENDIX. - - Constable's Public Sale. - - On Monday, the 22d day of September, 1913, between the hours of 9 - o'clock a. m. and 4 p. m. of said day, at the residence of S. W. - Hawley in ---- Town, district of Raleigh County, West Virginia, I - will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder, for cash, the - following described personal property, to wit: Three bed springs - and 3 beds, 3 mattresses, 1 dresser, 1 wash stand, 1 stand table, 1 - range stove, and outfit for said stove, 2 tables, 10 chairs, 3 - pictures, 1 broom, 4 comforts, 2 blankets, 3 quilts, and 3 - comforts, 1 safe and dishes and 1 set of irons, 4 pillows, levied - upon as the property of S. W. Hawley ---- a distress warrant for - rent ---- to satisfy ---- in my hands for collection in favor of P. - J. Donahue. - - Terms of sale: Cash in hand on day of sale. - - Given under my hand this 10th day of September, 1913. - - J. L. WILLIAMS, - - Constable of Raleigh County. - - - STATE OF MISSOURI, - - County of Lawrence--ss. - - Before me personally appeared Marvin Brown, and after being duly - sworn on his oath says that the above and foregoing is a true and - correct copy of the notice of the constable's sale as the same - appears from the original now in the possession of the affiant, and - compared by him with the original at the time of making this - affidavit. - - (Signed) - - MARVIN BROWN, Affiant. - - Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of December, 1913. - - (Signed) - - EUGENE J. McNATT, - Notary Public, Lawrence County. - Commission expires Feb. 19th, 1916. - - (Appeared in _The Menace_, Jan. 10, 1914.) - - - - -What Happens to Full Sexed Women When They Foolishly Take Vows Which -Insult Nature and God? - - - - -CHAPTER II. - - -Why is it that a human document ten thousand years old has the same -effect upon us, as a newspaper story of yesterday? Why is it that we -love or hate the men and women who live in the songs of Homer? Why do we -grieve, or rejoice with those who live in the pages of Plutarch; and -feel deeply moved when David and Jonathan are forced apart; when Joseph -is sold by his brethren; when the song of Solomon voices the deathless -devotion of the country girl for her mountain lover; and when the -fanatical Jeptha is about to slay his innocent, beautiful daughter? - -It is because human nature has never changed; what our fathers were, we -are: what Absolom and David felt, we feel. - -When the brilliant, wayward Jewish boy goes astray and meets his -untimely fate, we mourn with his broken father as he wails--"O Absolom -my son, O my son Absolom!" - -That which women have already been, women continue to be. Helen of Troy -was not essentially different from Madame de Pompadour; Cleopatra was a -more refined Catherine of Russia; Aspasia was the forerunner of Madame -Maintenon: Sappho was another "George Sand;" Lilly Langtry was a modern -Phryne; and Pauline Bonaparte had all the charm and voluptousness of -Nell Gwynne. - -One reason why the Old Testament continues to be a modern book is, that -it is so full of human nature. Our first instinct, when we became -violently enraged is, _to kill_. In the Old Testament, they do it. -Considered as a mere human document, there is more raw slaughter in the -Old Testament than any book you ever read, and the details are given -with frightfully fascinating realism. - -No cloak is thrown around Jacob and Abraham and Lot. Those citizens are -painted with all the warts on. In some of them, indeed, the warts fill -most of the canvass. That affair of David and the other man's wife: how -modern it is! If you will glance over the daily newspaper, you will find -that somewhere or other in this world of today, another David has seen -the loveliness of Uriah's wife; and the first thing you know this modern -David (in a Derby hat and tailor-made clothes) is running away with -Bathsheba in an automobile. As to Solomon and his harem--including the -Ethiopian woman--the subject is too delicate for polite treatment in a -high class publication. I must leave such matters to Mr. William -Randolph Hearst, whose Sunday editions and monthly outputs deal in "sex" -novels, Gaby Deslys, Lina Cavalieri, Evelyn Thaw, Mrs. Keppel, and -scarlet people generally. - -The point I desired to make is that _God made men and women to mate with -one another_, and thus reproduce and perpetuate the human species. - -There are no bachelor eagles, no spinster swans, no monks among the -lions, no nuns among the deer. When we want to make a bachelor out of a -horse, we resort to surgery. Most of us know what Mooley, the cow, does -in the Spring time, if she is shut up in the pasture with no other -company than other Mooley cows. - -Without pursuing this line of illustration farther, it is sufficient to -say that _all animal nature is under the same law_. Of course, there are -exceptions to all rules. Some men repel women: some women abhor men. -Some men actually marry, believing that they are fit for it and then -discover that they are not. A tragic instance of this was Thomas -Carlyle: another was Frederick the Great. Our President James Buchanan -was wise enough _not_ to marry; and Charles Sumner was so fatuous as to -do so. - -But the great law of Nature is, _Mate and reproduce_! It applies to the -flowers, to the plants, to the insects, to the fishes of the sea, and to -the fowls of the air. I have often wondered why we become so accustomed -to the outrageously informal conduct of hens and roosters, pigeons, -ducks, turkeys, &c., that we see it and don't see it: we know it, and -don't know it: it happens right under our eyes, and yet we never learn -anything from it, or think anything about it. - - * * * * * * * - -Once again, let me say, men and women in their animal natures are just -like other animals. They hunger, they thirst, they are hot, they are -cold, they are sick, they are well, they love, they hate, they fight, -they yearn for mates, and having found mates, _they mate_. Allowed -liberty, this natural tendency leads to wedlock, and legitimate -children. The husband and wife make the Home: the Home is the Gibraltar -of organized civilization; and the children are Posterity, in its -beginning. Thus marriage, the home, and the children are the -conservators of Society. - -If a so-called "religion" _forces_ 71,000 American marriageable men and -women into hiding places, where they have physical contact with one -another but cannot marry, _what happens_? - -You _know_ what happens. Your common sense tells you what happens. Your -own natural passions tell you what happens. - -Those marriageable men and women--many of them young, handsome, -buxom,--are shut off from all the world, by thick walls, barred windows, -locked doors. The young buxom men can get to the young buxom women. -Either in the day-time or in the night, this physical access can be had, -_in secret_. - -The men have been taught that they are gifted with supernatural powers; -and that they can forgive each other's sins. The women have been taught -that these men cannot sin, and that in serving these men they will be -serving God. Besides, if they _do_ sin with the priests, the priests can -forgive the sins. This being so, what happens, when the lustful young -priest slips into the cloistered convent, goes to the nun's bed-room and -solicits her to yield to _him_, as Mary yielded to the angel? - -(See "Why Priests Should Wed." Page 103.) - -The cloistered convent is built like a huge dungeon. The encircling -walls about it, are thick and high. No one enters in unto the unmarried -women excepting the bachelor priests. - -_The Law does not enter!_ - -The Italian Pope draws his line around the dungeons of darkness and -mystery, and the civil authorities dare not go in. - -Everybody knows that young women are caged in those hell-holes. -Everybody knows that burly, beefy, red-faced, thick-lipped young priests -glide in and out. - -Everybody knows what _he_ would do, if _he_ had the pick of a score of -buxom girls, in a secret place, he being a bachelor and they being -without access to any man but _himself_. - -If you were young and had no wife, you know what would happen, if you -were alone in a pretty girl's bed-room, and she were educated to yield -to you in _everything_. - -Yet, these impudent rascals, the beefy Irish, Italian and German -priests, ask you to believe that they never even think of touching -those 56,000 American girls that are caged inside those walls: - -Nevertheless, you _know_ it is against Nature for these young men not to -want to mate with those women. You _know_ that the cloistered convents -would not be built like Bastilles, and the world shut out, if there were -not something going on in there which they are afraid for the world to -see. - -You _know_ that where cloistered convents are _built and managed like -jails, THEY ARE JAILS_! - -Yet, those impudent rascals, gliding into the women, and coming out from -the women, tell you that although the women are taught to obey the -priest in all things, the priest never does say or do what every -full-sexed man would do and say, under the same circumstances. - -The Turks had their harems, and they knew women--likewise, they knew -men. The Turks had walls, and bars, and locked gates, and sentinels -outside to watch. But the Turks knew how vain are walls, and barred -windows, locked gates and vigilant sentinels. Therefore, the Turks -always kept eunuchs in the harem itself, eunuchs whose watchful eyes -were ever upon those ladies of the harem. And the eunuchs were powerful -men, strong and fierce, _but unsexed_. They had the strength to guard -the women, _without the desire to enjoy_. - -But the Roman Pope builds harems in all Christian lands--_harems for his -priests to whom he denies marriage_. - -There are no eunuchs to guard these women. The men who go in unto them -are men of like passions as ourselves; and there is no eye to watch, no -tongue that will tell, _after_ the priest has gone inside. - - * * * * * * * - -Our common sense condemns this enforced celibacy which pagan popes -invented for their own selfish, ambitious purposes. Or rather, the Popes -borrowed it from the Turkish Sultans who would not allow their chosen -body-guard, the Janissaries, to marry. In course of time, the -Janissaries became more powerful than the Sultan, and they had to be -exterminated. The Pope's Janissaries are now more powerful than the -Pope; and the wretchedness of his position is that he can neither -massacre them, nor rob them of their women. Of all the exalted slaves -the world ever saw, the Pope is perhaps the most conspicuous example. - -The Jesuits rule the priesthood; the Jesuits rule the cardinals; the -Jesuits rule the Pope--and the Jesuits have the pick of the most -beautiful women throughout the Christian world. - - * * * * * * * - -On such a system as this--a system which has denied so many millions of -men and women _the God-given right to live according to Nature_, history -ought to have much to say. What is the evidence and the verdict of -impartial History? - -Let us try the case: let us call the witnesses and hear their evidence. -If the other side wants to be heard, the court is open. I will give them -as much space for the defense as I take for the prosecution. It shall be -a perfectly fair investigation. Remember, however, that the unmarried -men and the unmarried women have been hiding within the walls of -monasteries and convents, ever since Pope Gregory abolished God's -ordinance of marriage, and declared, virtually, that the Pope's will, -and not that of God Almighty, should govern priests and nuns. Remember -that there has been every effort made at concealment: that the dungeons -could not tell their awful secrets; that the light of day was jealously -shut out. Remember that the nun who willingly submitted to the priest -did not wish to expose their mutual guilt. Remember that the nun who was -_forced_, could seldom escape and give the alarm. Remember that the -babes born in the cloistered convents were seldom seen of men, and that -they could easily be thrown into the hidden vault, where the quick-lime -was ready to eat their bones. Remember that it was to the interest of -popery to screen the priests, and that the rulers of States were in -deadly fear of the wrath of Popes--wrath which sent death to Henry III. -of France, William of Orange, and Henry of Navarre. Remember further, -that when Popes kept acknowledged paramours and bastards in the Vatican, -the priests had nothing to fear on account of their turning the -nunneries into brothels. Those nuns whose vows were not broken, were the -ugly ones, the old and the ailing. The monks had such complete power -over wives through the Confessional, that many women inside the cloister -owed their immunity to the women outside. - -There was a time, under popery, when no Italian husband was certain that -his wife's children were _his_: hence, for a time paternal affection in -Italy almost became extinct. There was a time, under popery, when every -Italian wife had an acknowledged lover--her _cicisbeo_--the priests -having paved the way. The husband kept a mistress; the wife, a lover; -and the priest enjoyed both wife and mistress, without bearing the -expense of either. - -(See Sismondi's Hist. des Repub. d'Ital.) - -There was a time, under popery, when it was assumed that every Spanish -woman had yielded to a priest. And of course a woman who takes one lover -will take another; and thus Spain went to moral perdition, with the -priests and the nuns in the lead. - -The same thing was true of Portugal, and of all Southern Europe. Of -Mexico, Central and South America and Cuba, it would be a waste of words -to speak. - - * * * * * * * - -Pope Gregory VII. introduced the unnatural requirement of celibacy--the -forbidding of men and women to do what God had equipped them to do, and -prompted them, by sexual passions to do--the most powerful passions -known to humanity--passions which if not naturally gratified lead to -crimes of revolting enormity, to loss of health, to loss of mental -balance, to loss of shame, of normal desires, and of reason itself. - -(Consult such books as Dr. Sanger's "History of Prostitution;" -Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, &c.) - -Soon after enforced celibacy was introduced, an honest priest, Honorius -of Antrim wrote-- - -"Look at the convents of the nuns, places of debauchery! These -abominable women have not chosen the Virgin, but Phryne and Messalina as -their models. They prostrate themselves before the idol of Priapus!" - -(Priapus was the male organ of generation, and was formerly to be seen -throughout Europe, especially at public fountains.) - -King Edgar of England wrote-- - -"What shall I say of the clergy? We find nothing among them but -debauchery, excesses, orgies, and unchastity. Their abodes are -propitious for solitude, and yet they dwell there not for pious -meditation, but in order to lead lives of debauchery." - -Pope Benedict VIII. at the Council of Pavia deplored the awful vices of -the unmarried clergy. - -Nicholas Clemangis says-- - -"The monasteries are no longer sanctuaries devoted to the divinity, but -places of abomination and debauchery--rendezvous of young libertines. -Indeed, _to make a girl take the veil is equivalent to forcing her into -prostitution_." - -The monks of the Middle Ages led a life full of orgies, equalling the -dissipations of Tiberius at Capri. "The concubines and prostitutes were -mistresses of the wealth of the monasteries and convents." - -The good Catholic, Anselm of Bisate, wrote-- - -"The nuns are not more virtuous than the monks. Widows took the veil in -order to be free, and not bound to one man." - -Instead of being the wife of one man, the nun could be the mistress of -several. - -(Dr. Angelo Rappaport, p. 36.) - -Why was it that Irenæus and Epiphanius poured out such unprintable -descriptions of the immorality of those "heretics" who refused to marry -and who professed to be virgins? Did these Fathers of the Christian -Church grossly slander those celibate heretics? Were the men and the -women who indulged in those sexual excesses, while pretending to be -chaste, any better or any worse than the human creatures of today? - -Was Cyprian libelling his own brethren and sisters when he described how -depraved, how licentious, how sodom-like was the conduct of the -so-called "virgins" of his time? Cyprian lived in the third century -after Christ, and he was speaking of the same phase of Christianity -which provoked the immortal passage in Gibbon. Carrying their brazen -hypocrisy to unheard of lengths, the monks and the nuns occupied the -same beds, and yet unblushingly vowed that they had passed through this -fiery furnace without the smell of fire on their garments! - -If I were to quote the Latin in which Cyprian exposes these shameless -harlots and libertines, the great and good U. S. Government would -perhaps _again_ prosecute me for telling the truth on Roman Catholicism. - -_Popery is the one thing that you must not tell the truth about, unless -you are prepared to withstand boycott, abuse, persecution and threats -against your property and life!_ - -(The curious are cited to "Elliott on Romanism," Vol. II., p. 408, and -to Cyprian to Pompanius, Book II., p. 181.) - -So well understood was it that young men and young women needed each -other, sexually, that both in the Latin and in the Greek there was a -distinctive name given to these "holy virgins." The "soul marriage" of -the ancient church was as much like the affinity doings of the present -day, as Solomon's carryings on were like those of the Sultan of Turkey. - -To the testimony of Cyprian may be added that of Chrysostom, who -bewailed the utter licentiousness of the "virgins." - -Since Bishop Udalric in the year 606 wrote of the skulls of the six -thousand infants found in draining off some fish ponds at the command of -Gregory the Great, the slaughter of the babes has gone steadily on. -"When Pope Gregory ascertained that _the infants thus killed were born -from the concealed fornications of and adulteries of the priests_, he -recalled his decree, extolling the apostolic command. It is better to -marry than to burn." (Elliott II., p. 409.) - -Yet, when we are told the same story by Father Chiniquy, Dr. Justin -Fulton, ex-priest William Hogan, ex-priest Fresenborg, ex-priest Manuel -Ferrando, ex-nun Margaret Shepherd, ex-nun Maria Monk, ex-priest Blanco -White, ex-priest Seguin, and by such submissive Catholics as Erasmus, -Rabelais, Campanella and scores of other unimpeachable witnesses, we are -more inclined to listen to the impudent denials of the lecherous priests -than to the evidence of _those who escape AND TELL_! - -The denial made by the unmarried priests is at variance with their -looks, is at variance with admitted facts, is at variance with what we -ourselves know of the overwhelming strength of our carnal desires: yet -the impudent denial is _so_ brazen, _so_ persistent, and _so_ -threatening, that we either accept it, or enter the plea of _nolle -contendere_. - -The accusation against the pretended virgins involves so many apparently -good men and chaste women, that we shrink from remembering the -difference between publicity and privacy; we forget that the treacherous -inclination is not felt in the church and in the crowd, but that it -creeps to the secret couch, under cover of night, when there is silence, -freedom from interruption and security from detection. - -We forget how this passion takes advantage of night, of undress, and of -secret contact of the physical man and woman, to heat their normal -blood, _no matter how sanctified they may really be in their daily -visible life_. - -"Saint" Bernard of the 10th century exhausts his wrath upon the hideous -vices of the monks and nuns "behind the partition." "What abominable -lust!" cries this stern old anchorite. He exclaims-- - -"Would that those who cannot rule their sexuality would fear to give -their conduct the name of celibacy. It is better to marry than to -burn.... Take away from the church honorable marriage and the undefiled -bed, and do you not fill it with concubines, incestuous persons, -onanists, male concubines, and with every kind of unclean person?" - -(Bernard's Sermons V. 29, cited in Elliott, II., 410.) - -Take away honorable marriage from the priests, and what do you get in -place of the bed undefiled? Read again that tremendous sentence of Saint -Bernard, and then ask yourself, _Has human nature changed_? - -A typical illustration of priestly seduction is the following: - -"A lady of the name of Maria Catharine Barni, of Santa Croe, declared on -her death-bed, that she had been seduced through the confessional, and -that she had during twelve years maintained a continual intercourse with -priest Pachiani. He had assured her _that by means of the supernatural -light which he had received from Jesus and the holy virgin_, he was -perfectly certain that neither of them was guilty of sin, &c." (Secrets -of Female Convents, p. 58, cited by Elliott, Vol. II., p. 448.) - -Substantially, that is the way every priest seduces every nun who yields -to him. - -Almost the very formula is mentioned in Dr. Justin D. Fulton's book -which was submitted to Anthony Comstock, the modern Cato, before it was -published. And Dr. Fulton asserts that Pope Pius IX. authorized this -concubinage of priests with nuns, _by a formal Vatican decree of 1866_. - -Dr. Fulton says--page 97 of "Why Priests Should Wed"-- - -"In the year 1866, Pope Pius IX. sanctioned the establishment of one of -the most appalling institutions of immorality and wickedness ever -countenanced under the form and garb of religion." - -Briefly, this institution authorized priests and nuns who had been in -service long enough to inspire confidence, to live in sexual relations, -like man and wife. Dr. Fulton proceeds at length to describe how the -priest selects his nun, how he makes his wishes known to her, how he -quotes Scripture to overcome her scruples, how the "love room" is -adorned with holy emblems and images, how the priest sprinkles holy -water over the bed, how he then kneels and prays for a blessing on the -union about to take place, and then----! - -As I have said a number of times, Dr. Fulton submitted his manuscript to -Anthony Comstock. The chaste Cato of New York, advised the omission of -many passages; but the whole of this hideous chapter describing how -Pope Pius IX. authorized the priests to make use of the nuns, sexually, -appears in the book with sufficient clearness to lay it in parallel -columns with the abominations of Sodom, Gomorrha, the White Slave -Traffic, the Decameron, the Heptameron, and Balzac's Merry Tales of the -Abbeys of Touraine. - -Dr. Fulton's book was published in 1888. _He was never prosecuted for -that terrible charge against Pope Pius IX._ He was never sued for -libelling the priests and nuns. His charges were never officially -denied. - -Cardinal Gibbons wrote his mendacious book, "The Faith of our Fathers," -for the purpose of answering all that had been said against Popery. He -mentioned Maria Monk by name, and denounced her true story as false. -Yet, although Gibbons published his book _sixteen years after Dr. Fulton -had hurled his awful charge against Pope Pius IX._, the Baltimore priest -dared not challenge the statement of Dr. Fulton! - -Maria Monk--poor, outraged, persecuted woman, was dead: Dr. Justin D. -Fulton, a fearless, powerful man, _was alive_! Gibbons was brave enough -to vilely attack the dead woman: he was too much of a contemptible -coward to attack the living man. - -The living man was ready with his evidence, _and he was a fighter_--and -the catlike Gibbons knew it. - -Says Dr. Fulton-- - -"At first the female may be a little timid, &c. She may object, &c. But -the priest, representing God's angel in this office, gently soothes the -mind and quiets the fears of his future spouse by saying to her, He who -will _come upon thee_ is not man, but is the holy one of God, and this -union is pleasing to him;----." - -(At this point Anthony Comstock must have blushed and raised an -objection, as the nun was doing, for the remainder of the sentence is -stricken out.) - -But the text continues--"It will be holy and blessed; therefore I say -unto thee, as the angel said unto Mary, Fear not." - -After this, the woman, being convinced by the language of heaven's -messenger that all is right, gives the priest complete assurance of her -willingness to submit by saying, as Mary said to the angel, "Be it done -unto me according to thy word." - -Then Dr. Fulton so frankly indicates what takes place in that private -room, and upon that consecrated bed, that I really am curious to know -what it was that made Comstock blush, a few lines above those which thus -tell of the soliciting priest, the yielding nun, and the ready bed. - -Now, if you will compare one case with another, from the time of the -early Fathers down to the present day, you will detect a similarity that -is appalling. - -The testimony of Edward Gibbon, the skeptical historian, exactly accords -with that of Saint Cyprian, Chrysostom, Jerome and Bernard. - -The memorable investigation which Duke Leopold of Tuscany caused to be -made of the cloistered convents of Italy revealed identically the same -cess-pools of vice that came to light in England when Henry VII. -uncovered the monasteries. - -All the literature of the Renaissance, after men's minds and pens freed -themselves from the ignoble fear of popery, bear witness to the same -universal everlasting truth--_Men and women were made for each other, -and no so-called religion can annul the laws of Nature_. - - * * * * * * * - -When a "religion" sets up the claim that it can pardon sins, educate the -children to believe it, _destroys those who deny it_, and fixes a scale -of money-payments for the pardon of sins, what sort of fruit is that -kind of tree likely to bear? - -If penance and payment rids me of sin, my conscience, like an unused -muscle, becomes enfeebled, and my proneness to sin is encouraged. - -Pope Leo X. was the Vicar of Christ who ordered lists of sin to be drawn -up, with the price of the pardon opposite each sin. - -(See History of Auricular Confession, by Count C. P. De Lasteyrie, Vol. -II., p. 132.) - -I will quote only a few of these tariff rates established by this -Infallible Pope. - -For allowing a ship to sail to convey merchandise to infidels, 100 d. - -For the absolution of any one practising usury, 7 d. - -For concubinage, 7 d. - -For intimacy with a woman _in a church_, 6 d. - -For pardon of him who has violated a virgin, 6 d. - -For one who has committed incest, 5 d. - -(The d. stands for the coin known as the ducat.) - -Can you imagine anything more conducive to immorality, than a -"religion," sanctified by the name of Christ, which teaches that its -priests can forgive sins, and which publishes a list of market prices -for such forgiveness? Do you marvel that Roman Catholic countries are -the immoral countries? Do you wonder at the mania for vice and crime -among the lower Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese? - -When a man could ravish a virgin for six ducats, what girl had any -safety except in the fear that libertines might have of her father or -her brother, or her sweetheart? - -What sort of hell would we have in America if popery gained the upper -hand, _and the negro bucks were taught that they could buy pardons for -violating white women_? - -God Almighty! It makes one sick to think that even now they are -admitting young black men to the priesthood. - -What will _they do_, inside the cloistered convents? - -No scream from within can be heard outside. Those dead walls tell no -tales. The Law dares not scrutinize the interiors where the negro -priests can penetrate; and we have no legal process to wring the dread -Secret out of the nun's cell! - -The Pope's Empire has been erected inside our Republic; and those who -represent our State, and our Law, are afraid of the Italian Pope and the -laws of the Italian church! - - * * * * * * * - -When the Commissioners sent by King Henry VII. visited the monasteries, -the guilt of the inmates was so overwhelmingly evident that hardly any -attempt at denial was made. The Confession of the Prior and Benedictines -of St. Andrew's in Northampton is yet of record, and it is a fair -example. They confessed that they "had lived in idleness, gluttony, and -sensuality, for which the Pit of Hell was ready to swallow them up." - -(Burnett, Book III., p. 227.) - -Among the false "relics" that were found and which had long been used to -swindle ignorant believers out of their money, were a Wing of the Angel -that had brought to England the Spear which pierced Christ's side; some -of the coals that had roasted the Most Blessed Saint Anthony; numerous -pieces of "the true Cross;" a small bottle filled with Christ's blood; a -Crucifix which would sometimes bow its head, sometimes roll its eyes and -sometimes move its lips. - -(All this fraudulent rubbish was seized, taken to London, and publicly -destroyed.) - -Bishop Burnett says-- - -"But for the lewdness of the confessors of the Nunneries, and the great -corruption of that state, _whole houses being found almost all with -child_." - -That was in the year 1535, in England! In the year 1910, when the -nunneries were suddenly broken up in Spain, exactly the same state of -affairs was discovered! Some of the nuns came out leading their -children: some were so far advanced in pregnancy that their condition -was evident to all--and as to how many little bones were left in the -underground vaults, God alone knows. - -Bishop Burnett continues-- - -"The dissoluteness of Abbots, and the other monks, and the friars, not -only with whores, but married women, and their unnatural lusts and other -brutal practices, _these are not fit to be spoken of_, much less -enlarged on, in a work of this nature." ... - -_The full report was destroyed_ by the fanatical papist Bishop Bonner, -at the beginning of the reign of Bloody Mary. (See "English -Reformation.") But Bishop Burnett saw extracts from it "concerning 144 -Houses, that contains abominations in it, equal to any that were in -Sodom!" - -Put this original evidence side by side with the confession already -quoted: put with it the testimony gathered by Duke Leopold of Tuscany: -add what Blanco White and Erasmus say; add what S. J. Mahoney and Manuel -Ferrando say: buttress this mass of evidence with what the Fathers of -the Church said, what all the escaped nuns and priests have alleged, and -compare this mountain of proof with what you _know_ about human -nature--and how can you harbor a doubt that nunneries and monasteries -are today what they always have been? They are houses of hidden -iniquity, and nameless crimes--_AND YOU KNOW IT_! - -That marvellous man of letters, Erasmus, who _wrote_ for the -Reformation, but who left Luther and others to _fight for it_, says this -in his "Colloquies."-- - -"I hold up to censure those who entice lads and girls into monasteries -against their parents' wills, abusing their simplicity or superstition, -and persuading them that there is no chance of salvation but in the -cloister. If the world were not full of such anglers; if countless minds -had not been most miserably _buried alive_ in such places, then I have -been wrong in my conclusions. But if ever I am forced to _speak out_ -what I feel upon this subject, I will paint the portrait of _these -kidnappers_, and so represent _the magnitude of the evil_, that every -one shall confess I have not been wrong." - -(Quoted in Day's "Monastic Institutions," p. 239.) - -The infamous Liguori--a Roman Catholic "Saint"--calmly assumes that many -inmates of the convents are captives, just as Erasmus had said they -were, and he lays down the law to these helpless, kidnapped captives -with all the malevolence of a grinning devil. - -"Now that you are professed in a convent, and that _it is impossible for -you to leave it_," &c. (Monastic Institutions, p. 294.) - -Liguori threatens the captive, telling the poor creature that if she -abandons herself to sadness and regret, _she will be made to suffer a -hell here_, and another hereafter. - -In other words, _Smile, prisoner, smile! or we will make the convent a -hell to you_! - -So says Saint Liguori, whose instructions to the priests, telling them -what filthy questions they must ask the Catholic women, are so "obscene" -that I was prosecuted by the Catholic Knights of Columbus for having -quoted some of them. If I had quoted all that Liguori wrote in coaching -the priests, _and teaching them virtually how to disrobe women of their -modesty as a prelude to their ruin_, I suppose the Government would have -ordered out the troops and had me shot. - - -Several times, Erasmus has been mentioned as one of the most terrific -accusers of the papal system, its frauds, impostures, greed, ferocity, -its fake miracles, its pagan adoration of images and relics, and its -rotten immorality. Perhaps it is due to the reader that I cite him to -"The Life and Letters of Erasmus," by the historian James A. Froude, -published in this country by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1895. - -From this comparatively recent work, the student can most readily obtain -a general idea of Popery, as described by one who was a devout Catholic, -but not a blind, servile papist. Erasmus was practically an orphan boy, -of somewhat uncertain parentage, whose life mystery and romance inspired -Charles Read to write the greatest of all novels, "The Cloister and the -Hearth." - -Mr. Froude tells the painful story of the forcing of Erasmus into -monastic vows; and then follows him as he develops into the most learned -and brilliant scholar of Europe. - -Never a robust man, always more or less an invalid, Erasmus remained -inside the Roman pale, but abhorred the inherent vices of _the system_, -denounced those vices with a pen of fire, endured the terrors and -agonies of persecution within his church, was bitterly abused by the -vile priesthood whose putrid lives he uncovered, was menaced by the -dread Inquisition, and really suffered more keenly the penalties than -Luther did, _for telling the truth on popery_. - -Luther, a bull-necked, fearless _Man_, broke out, and fought popery from -the outside. Erasmus, like many of his predecessors, tried to reform it -_from within_, and he discovered at last that he might as well have been -trying to reform hell. - -The enraged monks and monkesses did not murder Erasmus, as they had -murdered Savonarola, Huss, Jerome, &c.; but it was because the Pope had -his hands full of other matters, and the time was not favorable for -burning the most illustrious scholar of Christendom. - -What did Erasmus say and write and publish against the vast parasitical -growth of paganism, fraud and imposture that had overgrown Christianity -under the pope? - -Read his "Praise of Folly," which has been translated into English and -can be had through any book-dealer. - -When you read it, remember that Erasmus was never answered, save by -_abuse and threats_. - -In his letters to the Prothonotary of the Pope, letters written for the -Pope to read, and which the Pope did read, Erasmus arraigns the -unmarried clergy of Rome, her monks and her nuns, her monasteries and -her convents, in the same terms that are used by the Preamble to the Act -of the British Parliament which stated that reasons for the dissolution -of these Romish hell-holes. - -The accusations fathered by Erasmus and laid before the Pope, agree in -every essential particular with the revelations of Blanco White, of S. -J. Mahoney, William Hogan, Joseph McCabe, Bishop Manuel Ferrando, -Margaret Shepherd, Maria Monk, and every other witness who has had the -courage to uncover these papal dens of infamy, torture, vice and crime. - -I have not the space to quote at any length from the Letters of Erasmus: -get the book and read it for yourself. - -But weigh this passage-- - -"Men are threatened or tempted into vows of celibacy. _They can have -license to go with harlots_, but they must not marry wives. - -They may keep concubines and remain priests. If they take wives, they -are thrown to the flames. - -Parents who design their children for a celibate priesthood _should -emasculate them in their infancy_, instead of forcing them, reluctant or -ignorant, _into a furnace of licentiousness_." - -What was this furnace of licentiousness? The cloistered convent, or the -monastery. - -In his notes to the New Testament, a Greek translation of which Erasmus -made, he said, after alluding to St. Paul's injunction about the "one -wife," that the priests could commit homicide, parricide, incest, -piracy, sodomy and sacrilege: "_these_ can be got over, but _marriage is -fatal_." - -He adds that of all the enormous herds of priests, "very few of them are -chaste." - -In his letter to Lambert Grunnius, (in the year 1514) Erasmus gives an -awful picture of monastic slavery in houses "_which are worse than -brothels_." - -But once a young man is entrapped, there is no escape. "They may repent, -but the superiors will not let them go, _lest they should betray the -orgies which they have witnessed_." - -Then Erasmus tells of instances where men were buried alive inside the -monasteries to prevent their escape. "Dead men tell no tales!" - -Remember, reader! Erasmus was writing to the Pope's own Prothonotary, in -order that the "Holy Fathers" might of a surety _know_ what was going on -inside the monastic houses! And in reply, the Prothonotary, Lambert -Grunnius, writes to Erasmus-- - -"I read your letter aloud to the Pope, from end to end: several -cardinals and other great persons were present. The Holy Father was -charmed with your style!" - -And the Holy Father waxes wroth at some personal grievances of Erasmus, -and granted _him_ relief from monkish diabolism; but what was done to -correct the frightful conditions which Erasmus had brought to the Pope's -personal attention? - -Nothing! Absolutely nothing. It was the same way when the exposures were -made in Spain, when they were made in Tuscany, when they were made in -England, when they were made in the Philippines! The answer of Rome is -ever the same: _Nothing can be done_. - -The Pope _knows_ what enforced male celibacy does, when screened from -the civil law behind thick walls, _and given unlimited license among -young women, who cannot resist, and who cannot tell_! - -And you _know_ that the Pope _does_ know--for he also is a male like me -and you. - - -Again, Erasmus asks what would Saint Augustine say _now_, if he were to -see these convents and monasteries become "public brothels." - -In those standard works, "The History of Prostitution" and "Human -Sexuality," you will learn the fearful fact that the utter lewdness of -nuns and of wives who had been debauched by the priests, became so -universal that _the trade of the professional harlot was almost entirely -taken away from her_. Why should loose men _pay_, when there were so -many places of gratuitous entertainment? - -(Lest you heed the deceptive talk which endeavors to convince you that -the old tree is now bearing different fruit, read Hogan's "Popish -Nunneries," McCabe's "Ten Years in a Monastery," McCarthy's up-to-date -"Priests and People in Ireland;" and the astounding, undenied statements -of Bishop Manuel Ferrando, in "The Converted Catholic" magazine of New -York City.) - -In Delisser's powerful book, "Pope, or President?" there is a masterly -summing up against "Romanism as revealed by its own writers." - -Among other witnesses, he cites the evidence of Mahoney, the priest who -was examined by a Committee of the House of Commons. - -"A very nefarious use was made of convents," testified this honest -Irishman. His disclosures corroborated what another honest Irish priest, -Hogan, said several centuries later. - -"A woman ... is seduced into a convent to live in sin with the bishop -and other confessors. It is not human to place a priest where he is -allowed to fall, and suppose him innocent. Reader, commit your daughter -to the soldier or hussar who can marry her, rather than to a Romish -priest." ("Pope, or President," p. 59.) - -In fact, Delisser's chapter on "Convent Exposed" is one of the most -frightful that I ever read--doubly frightful because the Romanist -writers therein quoted _assume it to be their right_ to mistreat women, -just as they please! - -It is only in such a chapter, composed of citations from orthodox Roman -Catholics, that you can obtain anything like a true conception of _the -priest's point of view_. - -They have the right to kidnap children: they have a right to restrain -prisoners; they have a right to compel obedience: they have a right to -shut out the State and its law: they have a right to punish the -refractory, to flog the unruly girl, to starve her into submission, to -degrade her with disgusting services, to use her person for their lusts! - -_That is the priest's point of view!_ - -Study the horrible "theology" of Dens and Liguori: read what popes have -said in denial of a layman's right to criticise a priest; read what Rev. -Blanco White said of the systematic depravity of Romanism. - -Cardinal Newman had to acknowledge that Blanco White was a man or -irreproachable character, "a man you can trust." "I have the fullest -confidence in his word," &c. - -And what does this ex-Catholic, for whom Cardinal Newman vouched, have -to say about convents? - -"I cannot," says he, "find tints sufficiently dark to portray the -miseries which I have witnessed in convents. Crime, in spite of the -spiked walls and prison gates is there. The gates of the holy prison are -forever closed upon the inmates: _force and shame_ await them wherever -they might fly." - -Then the ex-priest tells the tragic story of his two sisters, virtually -tortured to death in the Spanish convent, he being a witness to their -misery and powerless to relieve it. The system held them all! - -He continues-- - -"Of all the victims of the church of Rome, _the nuns_ deserve the -greatest sympathy." - -White's book was published in 1826. Like "Pope, or President," published -in 1859, it is now out of print. Only at long intervals may you see a -copy advertised in the catalogues of Old-book stores. _Some_ agency has -been most active in destroying anti-Catholic books, and keeping them out -of our Public Libraries. - - -Consider this sentence in Hume's "History of England," Vol. II., p. -592. - -"Monstrous disorders are therefore said to have been found in many of -the religious houses, _whole convents of women abandoned to lewdness_; -signs of abortions procured, _OF INFANTS MURDERED_, of unnatural lusts -between persons of the same sex." - -Did poor Margaret Shepherd, or Maria Monk make any accusations that were -worse than these which we find in a standard history of England? - -In Aubrey's "Rise and Growth of the English People," the indictment -against the convents and the monasteries is equally severe. See Vol. I., -p. 80 and 81. - -In Lecky's "History of European Morals," we have exactly the same -arraignment of this unnatural and polluting system. - -In Bower's "History of the Popes," in Hallam's "Constitutional History -of England," and in every trustworthy account of the system of enforced -celibacy we have the same horrible, _but natural_, description of the -lives led by those full-sexed members of both sexes, who cannot mate -legally and decently, but who are given access to each other under cover -of night, behind the curtain of thick walls, and with the assurance -that, _so long as no scandal leaks out_, no notice will be taken of what -is done inside the "holy" brothel. - -The very language in which the virgin girl is made to pledge herself as -"the spouse of Christ," is so abominably obscene and suggestive that it -is bound to plant impure curiosity in her mind--and, with a girl, -_impure curiosity_ is the lure to the fall. Not especially wishing to be -again indicted for quoting the Pope's nasty language, I will forbear. -Even in the Latin, it is so vile, lewd, lascivious, filthy, _and nasty_, -that I marvel how any white woman, under any circumstances, can allow a -beast of a man to use that language to her, _and not slap his face_. - -The language is quoted in "Pope, or President," pages 86 and 360. The -"Nun Sanctified," of "Saint" Alphonsus Liguori, and the Theology of -Peter Dens will give the reader a fairly correct idea of what sort of a -slave the priests make of a woman, _after_ she has been ensnared into -taking the black veil. - -In the famous investigation of the convents of Tuscany, in 1775, one of -the nuns gave testimony which, is singularly piquant and unique. -Besides, it remained uncontradicted. The name of the witness was Sister -Flavia Peraccini. After telling of many escapades she had witnessed -inside the convents, and of many merry times the priests and the nuns -had with one another, Sister Flavia Peraccini deposed-- - -"A monk said to me that if a nun's veil were placed on one pole, and a -monk's cowl on another, so great is the sympathy between the veil and -the cowl they would come together, _and unite_." ("Unite" is the modest -word: "copulate," is _meant_.) - -"I say," continues the Sister, "I say, and repeat it, that whatever the -Superiors know, they do not know _the least portion_ of the great evils -that pass between the monks and the nuns." - -The foregoing is a mere trifle compared to the whole amount of the -undisputed testimony taken by Duke Leopold of Tuscany in 1775. Have men -and women changed? Is human nature the same? - -It was for all people and all ages that the inspired writer wrote-- - -"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let _every man_ have his own wife; -and let _every woman_ have her own husband." (I. Cor. 7:12.) - -The most powerful argument and authority against the Roman papacy on -this question _is that of Jesus Christ_. - -Virtually, he said that _a man must make himself a eunuch_--if not born -so--_before he could live like a eunuch_! - -If the word of Christ is not conclusive and binding, where shall we seek -the truth? - -The trouble with papists is, they are educated outside of the Bible and -common sense; and they seldom free their minds from the priestly -domination established in childhood. - - -(THE END.) - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Vices of Convents and Monasteries, -Priests and Nuns, by Thos. E. 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E. Watson - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Vices of Convents and Monasteries, Priests and Nuns - -Author: Thos. E. Watson - -Release Date: November 23, 2017 [EBook #56041] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICES OF CONVENTS, MONASTERIES *** - - - - -Produced by Turgut Dincer, Martin Pettit and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from images made available by the -HathiTrust Digital Library.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class = "mynote"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:<br /><br /> -Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.<br /></p></div> - -<hr /> - -<div class="center"><a name="cover.jpg" id="cover.jpg"></a><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="cover" /></div> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> - -<h1>THE INEVITABLE CRIMES OF CELIBACY:</h1> - -<p class="bold">——THE——</p> - -<p class="bold2">VICES OF CONVENTS<br />AND MONASTERIES,<br />PRIESTS AND NUNS</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p class="bold"><i>By</i></p> - -<p class="bold">THOS. E. WATSON</p> - -<p class="bold"><i>Author of "The Story of France," "Napoleon," "Life and<br /> -Times of Andrew Jackson," "Life and Times of Thomas<br />Jefferson," "The Roman Catholic Hierarchy," Etc.</i></p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<p class="bold"><span class="smcap">Thomson, Ga.</span>:<br />1916.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> - -<p class="center">Press of<br />THE JEFFERSONIAN PUB. CO.<br />Thomson, Ga.</p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> - -<p class="bold2">The Inevitable Crimes of Celibacy: The Vices<br />of Convents and -Monasteries,<br />Priests and Nuns.</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2> - -<p>When any species of wrong-doing can wear the disguise of righteousness, -the blindest among us can see how dangerous that kind of crime may -become—how hard to prove, punish and put down.</p> - -<p>There are immense Arabian plains where nomad robbers have practised -their profession, from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to -the contrary; yet those plains and the nomad bands that pitch their -tents beneath the Oriental sun remain very much as they were in the days -of Abraham.</p> - -<p>But where robbery has disguised itself <i>as Law</i>, and one class has aimed -the law-making machine at the others, saying "<i>Stand and deliver!</i>" -whole regions have become deserts, and great peoples have been blotted -out.</p> - -<p>In fact, the highwayman, the cattle-lifter and the pickpocket have never -in the least affected the destinies of nations. The pirate and the -buccaneer have never been able to destroy the commerce of the seas, -beggar provinces, and change noble harbors into neglected pools.</p> - -<p>It is when the robbers intrench themselves in Parliaments, Reichstags -and Congresses, and the robbery takes the form of "Law," that spoliation -becomes destructive. Bank laws and money-contraction laws beat down more -victims than armies. Protective Tariff "laws," infinitely more ruinous -than all the Lafittes and Captain Kidds, drive the American flag from -the seas, while on land they make a thousand Rockefellers, Carnegies, -Morgans, Guggenheims, McCormicks and Armours, at the same time that they -are casting millions of the despoiled out of house and home.</p> - -<p>There are realms where religious mendicancy keeps to the primitive forms -of the beggar's bowl and pouch. It is the free-will offering.</p> - -<p>In these countries of voluntary tributes, religious feeling has branched -<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>into the fewest channels, has lost the least of its original force, and -maintains today its most impregnable position. But where the priestly -caste was able to intrench its mendicancy in Law, and arrogantly say to -the laity, "<i>Pay me one-tenth of all thou hast!</i>" religion was first to -well-nigh lose its beauty and its strength, and like, the Rhine, almost -disappear into the intricate morasses of subdivisions.</p> - -<p>Ten thousand virulent disputes about tithes ushered in the diabolisms of -the French Revolution; and many of my readers will remember how Charles -Dickens, when a Parliamentary reporter, dropped his pencil in tears, -unable to go on, as Daniel O'Connell described one of the tragedies of a -tithe-riot in Ireland.</p> - -<p>When Religion went forth as Christ sent it forth, <i>it demanded nothing -for the priest</i>. Yet, the same religion, organized into an episcopacy, -afterwards wrote the tax of one-tenth upon the statute-book, and sold -the widow's cow to pay the priest for his prayer. In those days, it must -have been a gruesome spectacle as the burly parson, a picture of -physical fullness, stood in the background, personifying Law and -Religion, while the bailiff raided the cotter's wretched premises, -pounced upon pigs and poultry, or dragged household goods off to public -sale. Yet, during centuries of outrage, pain and starvation, this sort -of robbery disguised itself with <i>a double domino of Law and Religion</i>.</p> - -<p>Forgive me, if I digress briefly to mention how vividly I was reminded -of all this, by the thrifty, business-like manner in which Bishop P. J. -Donohue, of Wheeling, West Virginia, sold out a laboring man, S. W. -Hawley, <i>for rent</i>, in the year of our Crucified Lord, 1913.</p> - -<p>To satisfy the debt due to this most worshipful Bishop of God, the -following personal property was seized, and advertised for sale, to-wit: -3 bed springs and 3 beds, 3 mattresses, 1 stove, 2 tables, 10 chairs, 3 -pictures, 1 broom, 4 comforts, 2 blankets, 3 quilts, 4 pillows, and some -dishes.</p> - -<p>(It was further stated that Hawley's back was broken, while working in -the coal mines.)</p> - -<p class="space-above">George Alfred Townsend, who was so well known to journalism as "Gath," -wrote a novel which he called "The Entailed Hat." The book would have -lived gloriously, had it not been for the hat: the sternly absurd -conditions which this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> idea about the Entailed Hat fastened upon the -author, killed his novel.</p> - -<p>But there was in it one passage which lingers yet in my recollection, -after the lapse of more than 30 years. There were two brothers, shrewd, -pushing, flinty Jews, who drove hard bargains, hard collections, and -filled a store-room with household plunder sold for debt, and bought in -by the Jews, to be resold at a profit. "Gath" gave tongue to each -article of this pitiful domestic furniture, torn from the homes of the -poor, and auctioned at public outcry.</p> - -<p>The old rickety cradle spoke of the babes that had lain in it, and of -the mother-songs that had been sung over it, as the foot which moves the -world softly pedalled the wooden rockers.</p> - -<p>The loom and the spindle had their stories to tell: the table and the -dishes spoke of the plain meals and unpretentious hospitalities of the -lowly: the chairs remembered the humble hearth and fireside, and many a -circle of bright faces they had helped to form around the cheerful glow -of the burning logs.</p> - -<p>The silent clock, with no life of moving hands on its dust-covered face, -spoke of how the short and simple annals of the poor had been measured -by it, how it had timed the marriage and the funeral, the birth and -death; and how it had missed the toil-hardened hands that used to wind -it up, every night.</p> - -<p>And so on—the dirge of the Household Goods!</p> - -<p>As my eye ran over the items of the poor man's goods ordered to sale for -the most worshipful Bishop Donohue—the consecrated disciple of Christ -who didn't even have as much of a home as the foxes and the birds—I -<i>might</i> have thought of one or two blistering passages in the glorious -old Code of Moses; I <i>might</i> have recalled some of the bitterest of the -words of Jesus Christ, against those rich, haughty, unmerciful lordlings -who grind the faces of the poor.</p> - -<p>But I did not: on the contrary, that passage in "Gath's" novel rose out -of the mist of 30 years, and brought back the plaintive lament of the -household goods, seized, carried away, and sold into strange hands to -pay a trifling debt. "Gath," following literary tradition, most -canonically chose <i>Jews</i> to act as shylocks: it would never have -occurred to him that a consecrated Bishop of Jesus Christ could sell the -poor Christian's blanket off the bed, sell the bed itself, sell the -table at which the family ate, and the chairs that they sat on. Not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> -only the mattress on which the tired limbs of labor stretched themselves -to rest, and the pillows upon which the aching head had lain, but the -very broom which swept the floor, had to be seized to satisfy the rent -of this godly landlord, <i>the Bishop of a homeless Christ</i>!</p> - -<p>To make this picture perfect, the family Bible ought to have been levied -on—and this Catholic Bishop ought to have bought it in. Having acquired -the Book in that manner, a natural curiosity might have prompted him to -read it.</p> - -<p>One thing, however, the most worshipful Bishop might yet do: he might -take the proceeds of the sale of Hawley's beds, mattresses, pillows, -stove, dishes, comforts, blankets, chairs and broom—and contribute the -whole sum to Foreign Missions.</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>"Thou shalt not commit adultery!"</p> - -<p>All Christians take their laws and their religion more or less from the -Jews. Who the Jews took it from, is another question. Skeptical scholars -say that they took it from the older peoples of the East, of the Nile, -the Euphrates: orthodox Christianity maintains that they took it by -revelation direct from Jehovah. Therefore, every sect in Christendom -stands committed to the proposition that God Almighty, clothed in all -His terrors, with the clouds darkening the skies, the thunders for His -heralds and the lightenings for the flaming swords that went before His -face, came down to Sinai, and wrote upon the everlasting tablets,</p> - -<p>"<i>Thou shalt not commit adultery!</i>"</p> - -<p>(Doway Bible: Deut. xx:14. I will hereafter use this Roman Catholic -version as the true one, thus avoiding any dispute with papists as to -the accuracy of my quotations.)</p> - -<p>In this Doway, or Douay, a version of the Book, we are somewhat patly -told that the first thing which Adam did, after having been dispossessed -of Eden, was to know "Eve his wife, who conceived and brought forth -Cain, saying, I have gotten a man through God."</p> - -<p>Then she brought forth Abel; and before six other verses are ended, we -learn that the brothers are at enmity because of religion, and that one -has killed the other.</p> - -<p>How Adam and Eve were to have propagated the human race, had Eve not -listened to the snake; or whether they were to have propagated it at -all, is a mystery which our finite minds were evidently not expected to -fathom. Nevertheless, Saint<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> Augustine made a heroic effort to answer -the riddle; and his classic theological work, "The City of God," -contains his theory, still discreetly veiled in the original Latin, -which, being interpreted, is considerably nastier than any other English -that I ever perused in a classical theological work.</p> - -<p>The first occupation of Adam outside of Paradise ought to have some -weight with us, as a time-honored precedent. That wicked mankind, and -Noe came out of the Ark, together with all those animals, birds, -reptiles, &c., the very first command given him was, that he and his -family should increase and multiply. Apparently, their obedience to this -command was so prompt and effective that the Lord never reproached him -or his descendants for any neglect of duty in that particular.</p> - -<p>"And God blessed Noe and his sons: and said unto them, Increase and -multiply, and fill the earth."</p> - -<p>It is true that Noe got drunk, soon after this; but the diligent -casuists, who follow every perilous passage in the Douay Bible with -their indefatigable notes, tell us that Noe did not commit a sin by -getting drunk, "because he knew not the strength of it," the wine.</p> - -<p>(Thus does ignorance excuse the sinner, when the casuists need the -defense.)</p> - -<p>And through the Mosaic Code, breathes the same spirit and purpose: it -can fairly be summed up in the phrase, <i>Thou shalt marry</i>!</p> - -<p>Every encouragement is given to wedlock and to large families: polygamy -itself, had its <i>reason</i>, in those hot climates where puberty is reached -at so early an age, and where the child-bearing woman is so quickly aged -into unfitness for mating with the robust husband. It was partly because -the Mosaic law gave so little excuse for immorality, that adultery was -so cruelly punished. And the vigor of the Jewish type, for so many -centuries, amid so many barbarous persecutions, and in spite of such -wide geographical dispersions, is the most splendid monument to the -eternal wisdom of the command—</p> - -<p><i>Marry! Increase and multiply! Fill the earth with lawfully begotten -children! Honor the Home! Preserve your Race! Do not breed -promiscuously! DO NOT MONGRELIZE!</i></p> - -<p>In short,</p> - -<p>"<i>Do not commit adultery.</i>"</p> - -<p>As Moses minutely regulated the patriarchal household,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> making the nomad -Jew's wife the queen of his tent, so Paul the Apostle carefully -instructed the model priest, admonishing him to be content with one -wife, and to be watchful over the conduct of his family, "having his -children in subjection with all chastity."</p> - -<p>(I may add that St. Paul lays down the law in a manner that condemns the -Christian bishops who sell out their humble fellows who are unable to -pay rent and tithes.)</p> - -<p>The priests of Assyria and of Egypt were married men. The priests of the -Jews were married men: the priests of the Romans were married men. The -Bishops, or Popes, of Rome were married men, during the first four -hundred years after Christ.</p> - -<p>(See Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport's "Love Affairs of the Vatican," 3rd -Edition, 1912, p. 9.)</p> - -<p>Let no one misunderstand me: I freely admit that there are exceptional -men and women who voluntarily choose the unmarried life. There have -always been such exceptions to the rule, and there probably always will -be: the reasons need not be discussed.</p> - -<p>Those reasons do not necessarily imply a lack of virility: some men -simply prefer not to take a wife; some women just naturally fear the -loss of independence, or they never meet the King who will take no -denial, or they nobly burden their lives with duties which demand -self-sacrifice.</p> - -<p>The six Vestals of old Rome were <i>voluntary</i> celibates: such men as -Paul, Ben Zoma, Montaigne, Spinoza, were <i>voluntary</i> bachelors. It might -have been far happier for John Wesley, Thomas Carlyle, and John Ruskin, -had they persisted in the single state.</p> - -<p>But <i>enforced</i> spinsterhood and bachelorhood, is a frightfully different -thing. To say to men and women who have taken certain "vows," that they -shall never seek happiness in marriage, never escape mental and physical -longing and anguish, because of such "vows," <i>is to put the selfish will -of an earthly priesthood above the will of God</i>.</p> - -<p>It is impossible to conceive of a crucifixion of humanity more -unnatural, more indefensible, and more necessarily horrible in its -consequences.</p> - -<p><i>Enforced</i> celibacy in normal priests, simply means adultery, hidden -behind walls and disguised <i>as religion</i>. Therefore, when adultery has -to be tolerated, as an incident to a certain<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> form of Christianity, the -crime eludes the law, the illicit intercourse of the sexes identifies -itself with a religious system, and it becomes as impossible to control -as does the robber who gains control of the machinery of government. -When the robber is <i>the Law</i>, who is to punish the criminal? When -adultery is elevated into a system which is recognized as a religion, -who is to punish the adulterer?</p> - -<p>Robbery enthroned in the law, and advancing its demands too far, has to -be dealt with by revolutions. Thus it was in England, when the Great -Charter was won. Thus it was in the Revolution of 1688. Thus it was in -Switzerland, in France, in the American Colonies, in Italy, in Germany, -and even in Spain and Portugal—not to mention South America, and -Mexico.</p> - -<p>Adultery, <i>interwoven in a religious system</i>, was one of the -main-springs of the Revolution in Germany, in England, in Holland and in -the States of the libertine Popes, themselves.</p> - -<p>The enormous popular support given to Calvin, Luther, and Knox, to Henry -VIII., to Garibaldi, to Bolivar, and to Juarez, was largely fanned and -fed by the intense wrath of the people against the pope-protected -immorality of the priests—<i>the adultery which could not be punished -because it was interwoven into the system of popery</i>.</p> - -<p>The Popes could not punish the priests, because the Popes were equally -criminal. The system required celibacy: the system was against the law -of God: <i>the system gave the priest absolute power over women, and -secret access to them</i>. The system needed the unmarried priest, and the -system had to pay the price. <i>The adultery of the priest</i> had to be -cloaked and tolerated, for the simple reason that it <i>was incidental and -inseparable</i>.</p> - -<p>But who made the system? Not God, nor the Bible, nor the Apostles, nor -the early Fathers of the Primitive Church: the system was peculiarly the -work of Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII.</p> - -<p>It was this Pope who formulated the dogma of universal dominion.</p> - -<p>It was Gregory who said that, "The world derives its light from two -sources, the sun and the moon, the former symbolizing the Papacy, the -latter the Civil State."</p> - -<p>In Gregory's mind, the entire Christian world was his Empire. The -temporal Princes were his vassals, every King<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>dom of Europe was his -fief, every crown, his to give and to take away. The keys of Heaven and -of Hell were in his hands; he was the Infallible representative of -Jehovah; and when he spoke, nations must shout, "<i>The voice of the Pope, -is the voice of God!</i>"</p> - -<p>To defend such a power and advance its banners, a disciplined and -devoted soldiery was necessary: hence, the priests who could not take -wives and have children. A family would <i>divide their allegiance</i>. -Hence, also, the convent and the confessional, to furnish an outlet to -the ungovernable natural desires of full-sexed men.</p> - -<p>During the three frozen winter days of 1077, when a barefooted Emperor -of Germany stood outside the castle-gate at Canossa, in the snow, this -Gregory VII. spent the time inside with his Mistress, the Countess -Matilda of Tuscany. When the Pope finally professed himself satisfied -with the Emperor's penitence and submission, he figuratively placed his -foot upon the Emperor's neck. The Church had conquered the Civil State. -The priest was above the King. To Cæsar nothing was left, save what the -Pope might graciously concede. The things that had been Cæsar's, <i>in -Christ's time</i>, were now the Pope's. Thus, the Fisherman not only wore -one crown, but three, the tiara. He was lord of Earth, lord of Heaven, -lord of Hell.</p> - -<p>Under the Gregorian theory, God had become a silent partner in the -government of Creation, oppressed by the logical necessity of endorsing -every decree of the Infallible Italian priest. Jehovah was become a sort -of <i>Roy Faineant</i>: the Italian Pope was Mayor of the Palace. To vary the -illustration, the Almighty was become a King of England, and the Pope, -Prime Minister. What the Premier tells the King to say, the King says; -and then the Premier assures the world that what he has told the King to -say is, "the King's speech."</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>In the palace of the Popes themselves, what was the result of celibacy?</p> - -<p>Dr. Angelo Rappoport, of Rome, Italy, says in his book, published in -1912:</p> - -<p>"For centuries the history of the Roman Pontiffs reminds one of the most -depraved times of Athens and pagan Rome, rather than of Bethlehem and -Jerusalem.</p> - -<p>Courtesans, famous for their talent and their beauty, their intrigues, -and their gallant love affairs, ruled the Church and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> disposed of the -tiara. They raised and deposed the Pontiffs, imprisoned and assassinated -them. * * * Their beds became the pedestals from which their lovers -ascended the Pontifical throne.</p> - -<p>All these Popes were imitating the mode of life of the Saracens, to whom -they were paying tribute, and like true heroes of a seraglio, these -chiefs of Christendom died by poison or strangulation. They committed -follies worthy of Oriental despots, and vied in their debaucheries with -the Emperors of pagan Rome. Pope John XXII. ordained priests in a -stable, and swore by Bacchus and Venus." (John the 22nd Papa of that -name, began his Vicarship of God in the year 1316.)</p> - -<p>Cardinal Baronius exclaims,</p> - -<p>"Those infamous prostitutes ruled Rome, and their creatures and lovers -sat on the throne of St. Peter."</p> - -<p>Bernard de Morlaix, monk of Cluny, writes in the 12th century,</p> - -<p>"Rome is the impure city of the hunter Nimrod: piety and religion have -fled its walls.</p> - -<p>Alas! the Pontiff, or rather the King of this odious city of Babylon, -treads under foot the sanctity of the Gospel and the morality of -Christ."</p> - -<p>Matthew Paris, the historian of the 13th century, says:</p> - -<p>"The holy city has become a place of infamy, whose lewdness surpass even -that of Sodom and Gomorrha."</p> - -<p>So universal was the scandal caused by the bestial vices of the Popes -and the Italian cardinals that the Catholic Parliament of England -refused to allow Pope Innocent IV. to come to the British Court. Why? -Because, as the House of Commons roundly declared, "the Papal Court -spreads such an abominable odor that it should not be permitted in -England."</p> - -<p>(This was the Catholic Parliament of the Catholic King, Henry III., 13th -century.)</p> - -<p>Let me quote the brutally frank <i>words of a Pope</i>—</p> - -<p>"Whoever," writes Pius II., "has not felt the fire of love is either a -stone or a beast.</p> - -<p>Who is it, at the age of thirty, that has not committed a crime for the -sake of love?</p> - -<p>Many women have I courted and loved: and as soon as I had possessed -them, I was filled with loathing for them."</p> - -<p>(The Infallible Pius II. lived in the 15th century.)</p> - -<p>Inasmuch as the courtesans raised one boy of eighteen, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> another of -twelve, to the "throne of Saint Peter," you can imagine what sort of -lives they led in that gilded brothel, the Pope's palace.</p> - -<p>(Pope John XII. was 18 years of age. Pope Benedict IX. was a lad of 12 -years. Both were monsters of lust.)</p> - -<p>This being the general picture of the Popes, <i>after</i> they quit taking -wives, we are not surprised to learn that their mistresses and their -bastards were as well known, and as socially respectable, as those of -the kings and emperors, who married because it was a duty, and -Lotharioed because they found pleasure in it. The illegitimate children -of the Vicars of Christ were as undenied and undeniable as were those of -Henry of Navarre, Augustus of Saxony, Louis XIV. of France, and Charles -II., of England. Don John of Austria, was not more proudly the "woods -colt" of Charles V. of Germany, than was Cæsar Borgia the son of His -Holiness, Alexander VI. The Duke of Berwick was not better known as the -bastard of James II. and Arabella Churchill, than were two of the -reigning belles of Rome, not many years ago, recognized as the winsome -daughters in the flesh of His Holiness, Pope Pius IX.</p> - -<p>To complete the picture, history tells us that Pope John XII., who was -made God-on-earth at the age of eighteen, met his death by the hand of -an outraged husband, at the age of twenty-five. The furious husband -broke into the Pope's bed-room, in the Lateran palace, and slew the -adulterer in the arms of the faithless wife.</p> - -<p>Even Platina mentions this horrible fact, in his Lives of the Popes, -written at the request of Pope Sixtus IV., and published in the year -1479.</p> - -<p>Platina was a devout Catholic and was Superintendent of the Vatican -Library, Rome, Italy.</p> - -<p>In the biography of Petrarch by Jerome Equarciafico, we learn that this -poetic dawn-bird of the Renaissance had a beautiful sister, named -Selvaggia. Upon this lovely girl, Pope Benedict XII. looked with the -eyes of desire. He made infamous proposals to Petrarch, while the poet -scornfully rejected. Then His Holiness caused it to be whispered to -Petrarch that the Inquisition felt inclined to question him concerning -the orthodoxy of his faith. "The Question," meant torture, and Petrarch -fled from Avignon for his life. But a younger brother of Selvaggia was -more of "a man of the world," as the world went in those days of -all-powerful popery; and this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> brother gave ear to the Pope's temptings. -By his connivance, the girl was seized one night, as she slept, and -carried into the bedroom of the Vicar of Christ.</p> - -<p>When this girl of sixteen realized what was intended, she fell on her -knees, and piteously begged the Pope, the Holy Father, to take pity on -her.</p> - -<p>The raging lusts of the Pope were only maddened the more by the sight -and the touch of her charms, and he threatened her with eternal -damnation if she persisted in her obstinacy. The weeping, despairing -child <i>did</i> persist, and "<i>he had recourse to force</i>"</p> - -<p>("Love Affairs of the Vatican." Page 154.)</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>Petrarch, as I have said, may be fairly regarded as the dawn-bird of the -Renaissance, that marvellous Easter of Literature, when European -<i>Intellect</i>, which popery had buried and set the soldiers of the -Inquisition to guard, heard the golden trumpet of Resurrection sounded -by the Byzantine scholars—fleeing from Moslem invasion—and threw off -the shroud of a degrading superstition, defied the terrors of the stupid -fanatic, and said to all the world—</p> - -<p>"<i>I will be free again, even though I die for it.</i>"</p> - -<p>Petrarch was the purest of ten thousand pure, a lover who lived in the -glory of the sentiment, without even the temptation to plunge the sacred -torch into the stream of sensuality—a poet who sang as the bird sings, -because Nature put music in his brain and heart and throat.</p> - -<p>Petrarch was a devout Christian; and to be a Christian at that time, -meant to be a Catholic. You may be sure that it was no heretic whom the -Romans publicly honored in Rome, in the year 1342, and crowned with the -laurels that Virgil had not worn more worthily.</p> - -<p>Surely, Petrarch's description of the Pope's morals and the Papal Court -will not be spurned as the libel of an abominable heretic.</p> - -<p>"You find there the terrible Nimrod, Semiramis, armed * * * the -scandalous monument of the most infamous amours.</p> - -<p>Confusion, darkness and horror, vice and crime dwell within these -precincts. I am only describing to you what I have seen with my own -eyes.</p> - -<p>The hope of future life is looked upon as a vain illusion—what<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> is -being told of hell as a mere fable. * * * Love of truth is considered -eccentricity; chastity, prudishness. Licentiousness is considered -broadness of soul, whilst prostitution here leads to fame and prestige. -The more vice one accumulates, the greater the glory. Virtue is -considered ridiculous. * * *</p> - -<p>I shall not speak of violation, rape, adultery and incest. <i>They are -trifles at the Pontifical Court.</i></p> - -<p>I shall not relate that the husbands whose wives have been abducted, -<i>are forced to silence and exile</i>. * * * I shall not dwell upon the -cruel insult by which the outraged husbands are being compelled to -receive in their houses <i>their wives who had been prostituted, -especially when they carry in their wombs the fruit of the criminal -love</i>."</p> - -<p>Great God! What a picture of the Papal Court!</p> - -<p>Petrarch adds, "The people are quite aware of everything I know myself."</p> - -<p>The people knew; the people murmured: the people were helpless. -<i>Adultery had interwoven itself into the very fabric of religion</i>; and -the people saw no way to attack the adulterers without being accused of -heresy and delivered to the terrible Inquisition.</p> - -<p>Luther had not yet come. When he <i>did</i> come, the adulterers said that he -was not only a heretic, but a drunkard and a libertine!</p> - -<p class="space-above">William Hogan was born in Ireland, and was educated for the priesthood -at Maynooth College. Coming to America to follow his calling, he was so -shocked by what he learned, in the Confessional and otherwise, that he -abandoned popery in utter disgust.</p> - -<p>When he landed on our shores, he brought with him letters of -introduction to DeWitt Clinton of New York. So favorably was he received -that he was elected Chaplain of the New York legislature, unanimously. -Therefore, he was not a man with a grievance. Every selfish instinct -warned him to remain in the service of popery. It was his native honesty -and his horror of imposture that caused him to rebel. Afterwards, he -published books which reached an immense circulation prior to the Civil -War, but which were forgotten in that shock of armies. They are now -seldom seen even in the catalogues of Old Book stores.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> - -<p>To that splendid gentleman, Dr. John N. Taylor, of Crawfordville, -Indiana, I was indebted for a copy of the edition of 1856. The volume -contains Hogan's book on "Popery," and also his "Auricular Confession -and Popish Nunneries."</p> - -<p>On page 247, Ex-Priest William Hogan says, in reference to the popish -school-teachers, so numerous now in our Protestant schools—</p> - -<p>"These ladies, when properly disciplined by the Jesuits and priests, -become the best teachers. But before they are allowed to teach, there is -no art, no craft, no species of cunning, no refinement in private -personal indulgences, or no modes or means of seduction, in which they -are not thoroughly initiated.</p> - -<p>I may say with safety, and from my own personal knowledge through the -Confessional, that <i>there is scarcely one of them who has not been -herself DEBAUCHED BY HER OWN CONFESSOR</i>.</p> - -<p>The reader will understand that every nun has a confessor; and here I -will add, for the truth must be told at once, that <i>every confessor has -a concubine, and there are very few of them who have not several</i>."</p> - -<p>Remember that this fearful charge against celibacy was made in 1856, in -the edition of Hogan's work which was the 76th thousand. Therefore, the -ex-priest who had brought the best letters of introduction from Europe, -and who had been unanimously elected Chaplain of the New York -legislature, had hurled this hideous indictment at popery and its priest -76,000 times.</p> - -<p>What answer was made to him? <i>None!</i></p> - -<p>They furiously abused him, but did not dare to either prosecute or -reply. He had been a priest, and he knew too much.</p> - -<p><i>Popery has never dared to prosecute an ex-priest, or an ex-nun, where -there was any chance to lift the veil that conceals the rottenness of -life inside the convents, and the monasteries.</i></p> - -<p>After quoting Michelet and Courier and Llorente on the inevitable -lasciviousness and depravity necessarily resulting from denying the -priests the right to marry, William Hogan proceeds—</p> - -<p>"Shall the cowl shelter the adulterous monk in this land of freedom? Are -the sons of freemen to countenance, nay, asked to build impassible walls -around a licentious, lecherous, profligate horde of foreign priests and -monks, who choose to come among us, and erect a little <i>fortification</i>, -which they call nunneries for their protection?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Shall they own, by law and charter, places where <i>to bury</i>, hidden from -the public eye, <i>the victim of their lust, AND THE MURDERED OFFSPRING OF -THEIR CONCUPISCENCE</i>?"</p> - -<p>Speaking of Albany, New York, Rev. Hogan, on page 268, of "Nunneries," -says—</p> - -<p>"As soon as I got settled in Albany, I had of course to attend to the -duty of Auricular Confession; and in less than two months found that -those three priests, during the time they were there, were the fathers -of between 60 and 100 children, besides having debauched many who had -left the place previous to their confinement.</p> - -<p>Many of these children were by married women, whose husbands and -brothers, and relatives were ready, if necessary, to wade knee-deep in -blood for the <i>holy immaculate infallible church of Rome</i>."</p> - -<p>And why were these American Catholics willing to wade in blood for -popery? Because they did not know the truth about it.</p> - -<p>The same reason holds good today; and that's the reason the priests are -frantically trying to violate our Constitutional right of free speech -and free press.</p> - -<p><i>Above all things</i>, the priests dread the day when American fathers, -husbands, sons and brothers find out <i>what it is</i>, that these devilish -priests claim they have a right <i>to say, and to do</i>, in their secret -intercourse with Catholic wives, sisters and daughters.</p> - -<p><i>The priests will murder any man, if they can, to prevent HIM from -uncovering THEM.</i></p> - -<p>On page 283, Hogan continues—</p> - -<p>"Priests, nuns, and confessors are the same now that they were -then—15th century—all over the world.</p> - -<p>Many of you have visited Paris, and do you not see there a lying-in -hospital attached to every nunnery in the city? The same is to be seen -in Madrid, and the principal cities of Spain.</p> - -<p>I have seen them myself in Mexico, and in the city of Dublin, Ireland.</p> - -<p>What is the object of these hospitals? <i>It is chiefly to provide for the -illicit offspring of priests and nuns, and such other unmarried females -as the priests can seduce through the confessional.</i></p> - -<p>But, it will be said, there are no lying-in hospitals attached<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> to the -nunneries in this country. True, there are not; but I know from my own -experience, <i>through the confessional</i>, that it would be well, if there -were.</p> - -<p><i>There would be fewer abortions; there would be fewer infants strangled -and murdered.</i></p> - -<p>It is not generally known to Americans that the crime of procuring -abortion, is a common, everyday crime in popish nunneries.</p> - -<p>It is not known to Americans, that strangling and putting to death -infants, is common in nunneries throughout this country.</p> - -<p><i>It is done systematically and methodically, ACCORDING TO POPISH -INSTRUCTIONS.</i>"</p> - -<p>The modus operandi is this—and then the ex-priest describes how the -priest, the father of the child, baptises it, and thus insures its -passage to Heaven, as per popish belief; and how the abbess, or Mother -Superior, then shuts off the breath of the babe, at the nose: after -which the poor little body is thrown into the lime-pit to be consumed.</p> - -<p>Father Hogan also describes how the priests and monks give desired -children to wives whose husbands are not productive. The woman is easily -led to believe that God's will is enlisted in her behalf, and that He -has commissioned the priest to accomplish what the husband failed at: -<i>result</i>, happy wife, bouncing babe, rapturous husband, chuckling -priest.</p> - -<p>Father Hogan <i>tells it all</i>; and the rancorous papists never dared to -hale him into court!</p> - -<blockquote><p class="center">APPENDIX.</p> - -<p class="center">Constable's Public Sale.</p> - -<p>On Monday, the 22d day of September, 1913, between the hours of 9 -o'clock a. m. and 4 p. m. of said day, at the residence of S. W. -Hawley in —— Town, district of Raleigh County, West Virginia, I -will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder, for cash, the -following described personal property, to wit: Three bed springs -and 3 beds, 3 mattresses, 1 dresser, 1 wash stand, 1 stand table, 1 -range stove, and outfit for said stove, 2 tables, 10 chairs, 3 -pictures, 1 broom, 4 comforts, 2 blankets, 3 quilts, and 3 -comforts, 1 safe and dishes and 1 set of irons, 4 pillows, levied -upon as the property of S. W. Hawley —— a distress warrant for -rent —— to satisfy —— in my hands for collection in favor of P. -J. Donahue.</p> - -<p> Terms of sale: Cash in hand on day of sale.</p> - -<p> Given under my hand this 10th day of September, 1913.</p> - -<p class="right">J. L. WILLIAMS,<span class="s3"> </span><br />Constable of Raleigh County.</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> - -<blockquote><p>STATE OF MISSOURI,<br /><span class="s3"> </span>County of Lawrence—ss.</p> - -<p>Before me personally appeared Marvin Brown, and after being duly -sworn on his oath says that the above and foregoing is a true and -correct copy of the notice of the constable's sale as the same -appears from the original now in the possession of the affiant, and -compared by him with the original at the time of making this -affidavit.</p> - -<p class="right">(Signed)<span class="s3"> </span><br />MARVIN BROWN, Affiant.</p> - -<p>Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of December, 1913.</p> - -<p class="right">(Signed)<span class="s3"> </span><br />EUGENE J. McNATT, <br />Notary Public, Lawrence County.</p> - -<p>Commission expires Feb. 19th, 1916.</p></blockquote> - -<p>(Appeared in <i>The Menace</i>, Jan. 10, 1914.)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> - -<hr /> - -<p class="bold2">What Happens to Full Sexed Women When<br />They Foolishly Take Vows Which<br />Insult Nature and God?</p> - -<hr class="smler" /> - -<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2> - -<p>Why is it that a human document ten thousand years old has the same -effect upon us, as a newspaper story of yesterday? Why is it that we -love or hate the men and women who live in the songs of Homer? Why do we -grieve, or rejoice with those who live in the pages of Plutarch; and -feel deeply moved when David and Jonathan are forced apart; when Joseph -is sold by his brethren; when the song of Solomon voices the deathless -devotion of the country girl for her mountain lover; and when the -fanatical Jeptha is about to slay his innocent, beautiful daughter?</p> - -<p>It is because human nature has never changed; what our fathers were, we -are: what Absolom and David felt, we feel.</p> - -<p>When the brilliant, wayward Jewish boy goes astray and meets his -untimely fate, we mourn with his broken father as he wails—"O Absolom -my son, O my son Absolom!"</p> - -<p>That which women have already been, women continue to be. Helen of Troy -was not essentially different from Madame de Pompadour; Cleopatra was a -more refined Catherine of Russia; Aspasia was the forerunner of Madame -Maintenon: Sappho was another "George Sand;" Lilly Langtry was a modern -Phryne; and Pauline Bonaparte had all the charm and voluptousness of -Nell Gwynne.</p> - -<p>One reason why the Old Testament continues to be a modern book is, that -it is so full of human nature. Our first instinct, when we became -violently enraged is, <i>to kill</i>. In the Old Testament, they do it. -Considered as a mere human document, there is more raw slaughter in the -Old Testament than any book you ever read, and the details are given -with frightfully fascinating realism.</p> - -<p>No cloak is thrown around Jacob and Abraham and Lot. Those citizens are -painted with all the warts on. In some of them, indeed, the warts fill -most of the canvass. That affair of David and the other man's wife: how -modern it is! If you will glance over the daily newspaper, you will find -that some<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>where or other in this world of today, another David has seen -the loveliness of Uriah's wife; and the first thing you know this modern -David (in a Derby hat and tailor-made clothes) is running away with -Bathsheba in an automobile. As to Solomon and his harem—including the -Ethiopian woman—the subject is too delicate for polite treatment in a -high class publication. I must leave such matters to Mr. William -Randolph Hearst, whose Sunday editions and monthly outputs deal in "sex" -novels, Gaby Deslys, Lina Cavalieri, Evelyn Thaw, Mrs. Keppel, and -scarlet people generally.</p> - -<p>The point I desired to make is that <i>God made men and women to mate with -one another</i>, and thus reproduce and perpetuate the human species.</p> - -<p>There are no bachelor eagles, no spinster swans, no monks among the -lions, no nuns among the deer. When we want to make a bachelor out of a -horse, we resort to surgery. Most of us know what Mooley, the cow, does -in the Spring time, if she is shut up in the pasture with no other -company than other Mooley cows.</p> - -<p>Without pursuing this line of illustration farther, it is sufficient to -say that <i>all animal nature is under the same law</i>. Of course, there are -exceptions to all rules. Some men repel women: some women abhor men. -Some men actually marry, believing that they are fit for it and then -discover that they are not. A tragic instance of this was Thomas -Carlyle: another was Frederick the Great. Our President James Buchanan -was wise enough <i>not</i> to marry; and Charles Sumner was so fatuous as to -do so.</p> - -<p>But the great law of Nature is, <i>Mate and reproduce</i>! It applies to the -flowers, to the plants, to the insects, to the fishes of the sea, and to -the fowls of the air. I have often wondered why we become so accustomed -to the outrageously informal conduct of hens and roosters, pigeons, -ducks, turkeys, &c., that we see it and don't see it: we know it, and -don't know it: it happens right under our eyes, and yet we never learn -anything from it, or think anything about it.</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>Once again, let me say, men and women in their animal natures are just -like other animals. They hunger, they thirst, they are hot, they are -cold, they are sick, they are well, they love, they hate, they fight, -they yearn for mates, and having found mates, <i>they mate</i>. Allowed -liberty, this natural tendency<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> leads to wedlock, and legitimate -children. The husband and wife make the Home: the Home is the Gibraltar -of organized civilization; and the children are Posterity, in its -beginning. Thus marriage, the home, and the children are the -conservators of Society.</p> - -<p>If a so-called "religion" <i>forces</i> 71,000 American marriageable men and -women into hiding places, where they have physical contact with one -another but cannot marry, <i>what happens</i>?</p> - -<p>You <i>know</i> what happens. Your common sense tells you what happens. Your -own natural passions tell you what happens.</p> - -<p>Those marriageable men and women—many of them young, handsome, -buxom,—are shut off from all the world, by thick walls, barred windows, -locked doors. The young buxom men can get to the young buxom women. -Either in the day-time or in the night, this physical access can be had, -<i>in secret</i>.</p> - -<p>The men have been taught that they are gifted with supernatural powers; -and that they can forgive each other's sins. The women have been taught -that these men cannot sin, and that in serving these men they will be -serving God. Besides, if they <i>do</i> sin with the priests, the priests can -forgive the sins. This being so, what happens, when the lustful young -priest slips into the cloistered convent, goes to the nun's bed-room and -solicits her to yield to <i>him</i>, as Mary yielded to the angel?</p> - -<p>(See "Why Priests Should Wed." Page 103.)</p> - -<p>The cloistered convent is built like a huge dungeon. The encircling -walls about it, are thick and high. No one enters in unto the unmarried -women excepting the bachelor priests.</p> - -<p><i>The Law does not enter!</i></p> - -<p>The Italian Pope draws his line around the dungeons of darkness and -mystery, and the civil authorities dare not go in.</p> - -<p>Everybody knows that young women are caged in those hell-holes. -Everybody knows that burly, beefy, red-faced, thick-lipped young priests -glide in and out.</p> - -<p>Everybody knows what <i>he</i> would do, if <i>he</i> had the pick of a score of -buxom girls, in a secret place, he being a bachelor and they being -without access to any man but <i>himself</i>.</p> - -<p>If you were young and had no wife, you know what would happen, if you -were alone in a pretty girl's bed-room, and she were educated to yield -to you in <i>everything</i>.</p> - -<p>Yet, these impudent rascals, the beefy Irish, Italian and German -priests, ask you to believe that they never even think<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> of touching -those 56,000 American girls that are caged inside those walls:</p> - -<p>Nevertheless, you <i>know</i> it is against Nature for these young men not to -want to mate with those women. You <i>know</i> that the cloistered convents -would not be built like Bastilles, and the world shut out, if there were -not something going on in there which they are afraid for the world to -see.</p> - -<p>You <i>know</i> that where cloistered convents are <i>built and managed like -jails, THEY ARE JAILS</i>!</p> - -<p>Yet, those impudent rascals, gliding into the women, and coming out from -the women, tell you that although the women are taught to obey the -priest in all things, the priest never does say or do what every -full-sexed man would do and say, under the same circumstances.</p> - -<p>The Turks had their harems, and they knew women—likewise, they knew -men. The Turks had walls, and bars, and locked gates, and sentinels -outside to watch. But the Turks knew how vain are walls, and barred -windows, locked gates and vigilant sentinels. Therefore, the Turks -always kept eunuchs in the harem itself, eunuchs whose watchful eyes -were ever upon those ladies of the harem. And the eunuchs were powerful -men, strong and fierce, <i>but unsexed</i>. They had the strength to guard -the women, <i>without the desire to enjoy</i>.</p> - -<p>But the Roman Pope builds harems in all Christian lands—<i>harems for his -priests to whom he denies marriage</i>.</p> - -<p>There are no eunuchs to guard these women. The men who go in unto them -are men of like passions as ourselves; and there is no eye to watch, no -tongue that will tell, <i>after</i> the priest has gone inside.</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>Our common sense condemns this enforced celibacy which pagan popes -invented for their own selfish, ambitious purposes. Or rather, the Popes -borrowed it from the Turkish Sultans who would not allow their chosen -body-guard, the Janissaries, to marry. In course of time, the -Janissaries became more powerful than the Sultan, and they had to be -exterminated. The Pope's Janissaries are now more powerful than the -Pope; and the wretchedness of his position is that he can neither -massacre them, nor rob them of their women. Of all the exalted slaves -the world ever saw, the Pope is perhaps the most conspicuous example.</p> - -<p>The Jesuits rule the priesthood; the Jesuits rule the cardi<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>nals; the -Jesuits rule the Pope—and the Jesuits have the pick of the most -beautiful women throughout the Christian world.</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>On such a system as this—a system which has denied so many millions of -men and women <i>the God-given right to live according to Nature</i>, history -ought to have much to say. What is the evidence and the verdict of -impartial History?</p> - -<p>Let us try the case: let us call the witnesses and hear their evidence. -If the other side wants to be heard, the court is open. I will give them -as much space for the defense as I take for the prosecution. It shall be -a perfectly fair investigation. Remember, however, that the unmarried -men and the unmarried women have been hiding within the walls of -monasteries and convents, ever since Pope Gregory abolished God's -ordinance of marriage, and declared, virtually, that the Pope's will, -and not that of God Almighty, should govern priests and nuns. Remember -that there has been every effort made at concealment: that the dungeons -could not tell their awful secrets; that the light of day was jealously -shut out. Remember that the nun who willingly submitted to the priest -did not wish to expose their mutual guilt. Remember that the nun who was -<i>forced</i>, could seldom escape and give the alarm. Remember that the -babes born in the cloistered convents were seldom seen of men, and that -they could easily be thrown into the hidden vault, where the quick-lime -was ready to eat their bones. Remember that it was to the interest of -popery to screen the priests, and that the rulers of States were in -deadly fear of the wrath of Popes—wrath which sent death to Henry III. -of France, William of Orange, and Henry of Navarre. Remember further, -that when Popes kept acknowledged paramours and bastards in the Vatican, -the priests had nothing to fear on account of their turning the -nunneries into brothels. Those nuns whose vows were not broken, were the -ugly ones, the old and the ailing. The monks had such complete power -over wives through the Confessional, that many women inside the cloister -owed their immunity to the women outside.</p> - -<p>There was a time, under popery, when no Italian husband was certain that -his wife's children were <i>his</i>: hence, for a time paternal affection in -Italy almost became extinct. There was a time, under popery, when every -Italian wife had an acknowledged lover—her <i>cicisbeo</i>—the priests -having paved the way. The husband kept a mistress; the wife, a lover; -and the priest<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> enjoyed both wife and mistress, without bearing the -expense of either.</p> - -<p>(See Sismondi's Hist. des Repub. d'Ital.)</p> - -<p>There was a time, under popery, when it was assumed that every Spanish -woman had yielded to a priest. And of course a woman who takes one lover -will take another; and thus Spain went to moral perdition, with the -priests and the nuns in the lead.</p> - -<p>The same thing was true of Portugal, and of all Southern Europe. Of -Mexico, Central and South America and Cuba, it would be a waste of words -to speak.</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>Pope Gregory VII. introduced the unnatural requirement of celibacy—the -forbidding of men and women to do what God had equipped them to do, and -prompted them, by sexual passions to do—the most powerful passions -known to humanity—passions which if not naturally gratified lead to -crimes of revolting enormity, to loss of health, to loss of mental -balance, to loss of shame, of normal desires, and of reason itself.</p> - -<p>(Consult such books as Dr. Sanger's "History of Prostitution;" -Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, &c.)</p> - -<p>Soon after enforced celibacy was introduced, an honest priest, Honorius -of Antrim wrote—</p> - -<p>"Look at the convents of the nuns, places of debauchery! These -abominable women have not chosen the Virgin, but Phryne and Messalina as -their models. They prostrate themselves before the idol of Priapus!"</p> - -<p>(Priapus was the male organ of generation, and was formerly to be seen -throughout Europe, especially at public fountains.)</p> - -<p>King Edgar of England wrote—</p> - -<p>"What shall I say of the clergy? We find nothing among them but -debauchery, excesses, orgies, and unchastity. Their abodes are -propitious for solitude, and yet they dwell there not for pious -meditation, but in order to lead lives of debauchery."</p> - -<p>Pope Benedict VIII. at the Council of Pavia deplored the awful vices of -the unmarried clergy.</p> - -<p>Nicholas Clemangis says—</p> - -<p>"The monasteries are no longer sanctuaries devoted to the divinity, but -places of abomination and debauchery—rendez<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>vous of young libertines. -Indeed, <i>to make a girl take the veil is equivalent to forcing her into -prostitution</i>."</p> - -<p>The monks of the Middle Ages led a life full of orgies, equalling the -dissipations of Tiberius at Capri. "The concubines and prostitutes were -mistresses of the wealth of the monasteries and convents."</p> - -<p>The good Catholic, Anselm of Bisate, wrote—</p> - -<p>"The nuns are not more virtuous than the monks. Widows took the veil in -order to be free, and not bound to one man."</p> - -<p>Instead of being the wife of one man, the nun could be the mistress of -several.</p> - -<p>(Dr. Angelo Rappaport, p. 36.)</p> - -<p>Why was it that Irenæus and Epiphanius poured out such unprintable -descriptions of the immorality of those "heretics" who refused to marry -and who professed to be virgins? Did these Fathers of the Christian -Church grossly slander those celibate heretics? Were the men and the -women who indulged in those sexual excesses, while pretending to be -chaste, any better or any worse than the human creatures of today?</p> - -<p>Was Cyprian libelling his own brethren and sisters when he described how -depraved, how licentious, how sodom-like was the conduct of the -so-called "virgins" of his time? Cyprian lived in the third century -after Christ, and he was speaking of the same phase of Christianity -which provoked the immortal passage in Gibbon. Carrying their brazen -hypocrisy to unheard of lengths, the monks and the nuns occupied the -same beds, and yet unblushingly vowed that they had passed through this -fiery furnace without the smell of fire on their garments!</p> - -<p>If I were to quote the Latin in which Cyprian exposes these shameless -harlots and libertines, the great and good U. S. Government would -perhaps <i>again</i> prosecute me for telling the truth on Roman Catholicism.</p> - -<p><i>Popery is the one thing that you must not tell the truth about, unless -you are prepared to withstand boycott, abuse, persecution and threats -against your property and life!</i></p> - -<p>(The curious are cited to "Elliott on Romanism," Vol. II., p. 408, and -to Cyprian to Pompanius, Book II., p. 181.)</p> - -<p>So well understood was it that young men and young women needed each -other, sexually, that both in the Latin and in the Greek there was a -distinctive name given to these "holy virgins." The "soul marriage" of -the ancient church was as much like the affinity doings of the present -day, as Solomon's carryings on were like those of the Sultan of Turkey.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> - -<p>To the testimony of Cyprian may be added that of Chrysostom, who -bewailed the utter licentiousness of the "virgins."</p> - -<p>Since Bishop Udalric in the year 606 wrote of the skulls of the six -thousand infants found in draining off some fish ponds at the command of -Gregory the Great, the slaughter of the babes has gone steadily on. -"When Pope Gregory ascertained that <i>the infants thus killed were born -from the concealed fornications of and adulteries of the priests</i>, he -recalled his decree, extolling the apostolic command. It is better to -marry than to burn." (Elliott II., p. 409.)</p> - -<p>Yet, when we are told the same story by Father Chiniquy, Dr. Justin -Fulton, ex-priest William Hogan, ex-priest Fresenborg, ex-priest Manuel -Ferrando, ex-nun Margaret Shepherd, ex-nun Maria Monk, ex-priest Blanco -White, ex-priest Seguin, and by such submissive Catholics as Erasmus, -Rabelais, Campanella and scores of other unimpeachable witnesses, we are -more inclined to listen to the impudent denials of the lecherous priests -than to the evidence of <i>those who escape AND TELL</i>!</p> - -<p>The denial made by the unmarried priests is at variance with their -looks, is at variance with admitted facts, is at variance with what we -ourselves know of the overwhelming strength of our carnal desires: yet -the impudent denial is <i>so</i> brazen, <i>so</i> persistent, and <i>so</i> -threatening, that we either accept it, or enter the plea of <i>nolle -contendere</i>.</p> - -<p>The accusation against the pretended virgins involves so many apparently -good men and chaste women, that we shrink from remembering the -difference between publicity and privacy; we forget that the treacherous -inclination is not felt in the church and in the crowd, but that it -creeps to the secret couch, under cover of night, when there is silence, -freedom from interruption and security from detection.</p> - -<p>We forget how this passion takes advantage of night, of undress, and of -secret contact of the physical man and woman, to heat their normal -blood, <i>no matter how sanctified they may really be in their daily -visible life</i>.</p> - -<p>"Saint" Bernard of the 10th century exhausts his wrath upon the hideous -vices of the monks and nuns "behind the partition." "What abominable -lust!" cries this stern old anchorite. He exclaims—</p> - -<p>"Would that those who cannot rule their sexuality would fear to give -their conduct the name of celibacy. It is better to marry than to -burn.... Take away from the church<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> honorable marriage and the undefiled -bed, and do you not fill it with concubines, incestuous persons, -onanists, male concubines, and with every kind of unclean person?"</p> - -<p>(Bernard's Sermons V. 29, cited in Elliott, II., 410.)</p> - -<p>Take away honorable marriage from the priests, and what do you get in -place of the bed undefiled? Read again that tremendous sentence of Saint -Bernard, and then ask yourself, <i>Has human nature changed</i>?</p> - -<p>A typical illustration of priestly seduction is the following:</p> - -<p>"A lady of the name of Maria Catharine Barni, of Santa Croe, declared on -her death-bed, that she had been seduced through the confessional, and -that she had during twelve years maintained a continual intercourse with -priest Pachiani. He had assured her <i>that by means of the supernatural -light which he had received from Jesus and the holy virgin</i>, he was -perfectly certain that neither of them was guilty of sin, &c." (Secrets -of Female Convents, p. 58, cited by Elliott, Vol. II., p. 448.)</p> - -<p>Substantially, that is the way every priest seduces every nun who yields -to him.</p> - -<p>Almost the very formula is mentioned in Dr. Justin D. Fulton's book -which was submitted to Anthony Comstock, the modern Cato, before it was -published. And Dr. Fulton asserts that Pope Pius IX. authorized this -concubinage of priests with nuns, <i>by a formal Vatican decree of 1866</i>.</p> - -<p>Dr. Fulton says—page 97 of "Why Priests Should Wed"—</p> - -<p>"In the year 1866, Pope Pius IX. sanctioned the establishment of one of -the most appalling institutions of immorality and wickedness ever -countenanced under the form and garb of religion."</p> - -<p>Briefly, this institution authorized priests and nuns who had been in -service long enough to inspire confidence, to live in sexual relations, -like man and wife. Dr. Fulton proceeds at length to describe how the -priest selects his nun, how he makes his wishes known to her, how he -quotes Scripture to overcome her scruples, how the "love room" is -adorned with holy emblems and images, how the priest sprinkles holy -water over the bed, how he then kneels and prays for a blessing on the -union about to take place, and then——!</p> - -<p>As I have said a number of times, Dr. Fulton submitted his manuscript to -Anthony Comstock. The chaste Cato of New York, advised the omission of -many passages; but the whole of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> this hideous chapter describing how -Pope Pius IX. authorized the priests to make use of the nuns, sexually, -appears in the book with sufficient clearness to lay it in parallel -columns with the abominations of Sodom, Gomorrha, the White Slave -Traffic, the Decameron, the Heptameron, and Balzac's Merry Tales of the -Abbeys of Touraine.</p> - -<p>Dr. Fulton's book was published in 1888. <i>He was never prosecuted for -that terrible charge against Pope Pius IX.</i> He was never sued for -libelling the priests and nuns. His charges were never officially -denied.</p> - -<p>Cardinal Gibbons wrote his mendacious book, "The Faith of our Fathers," -for the purpose of answering all that had been said against Popery. He -mentioned Maria Monk by name, and denounced her true story as false. -Yet, although Gibbons published his book <i>sixteen years after Dr. Fulton -had hurled his awful charge against Pope Pius IX.</i>, the Baltimore priest -dared not challenge the statement of Dr. Fulton!</p> - -<p>Maria Monk—poor, outraged, persecuted woman, was dead: Dr. Justin D. -Fulton, a fearless, powerful man, <i>was alive</i>! Gibbons was brave enough -to vilely attack the dead woman: he was too much of a contemptible -coward to attack the living man.</p> - -<p>The living man was ready with his evidence, <i>and he was a fighter</i>—and -the catlike Gibbons knew it.</p> - -<p>Says Dr. Fulton—</p> - -<p>"At first the female may be a little timid, &c. She may object, &c. But -the priest, representing God's angel in this office, gently soothes the -mind and quiets the fears of his future spouse by saying to her, He who -will <i>come upon thee</i> is not man, but is the holy one of God, and this -union is pleasing to him;——."</p> - -<p>(At this point Anthony Comstock must have blushed and raised an -objection, as the nun was doing, for the remainder of the sentence is -stricken out.)</p> - -<p>But the text continues—"It will be holy and blessed; therefore I say -unto thee, as the angel said unto Mary, Fear not."</p> - -<p>After this, the woman, being convinced by the language of heaven's -messenger that all is right, gives the priest complete assurance of her -willingness to submit by saying, as Mary said to the angel, "Be it done -unto me according to thy word."</p> - -<p>Then Dr. Fulton so frankly indicates what takes place in that private -room, and upon that consecrated bed, that I really<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> am curious to know -what it was that made Comstock blush, a few lines above those which thus -tell of the soliciting priest, the yielding nun, and the ready bed.</p> - -<p>Now, if you will compare one case with another, from the time of the -early Fathers down to the present day, you will detect a similarity that -is appalling.</p> - -<p>The testimony of Edward Gibbon, the skeptical historian, exactly accords -with that of Saint Cyprian, Chrysostom, Jerome and Bernard.</p> - -<p>The memorable investigation which Duke Leopold of Tuscany caused to be -made of the cloistered convents of Italy revealed identically the same -cess-pools of vice that came to light in England when Henry VII. -uncovered the monasteries.</p> - -<p>All the literature of the Renaissance, after men's minds and pens freed -themselves from the ignoble fear of popery, bear witness to the same -universal everlasting truth—<i>Men and women were made for each other, -and no so-called religion can annul the laws of Nature</i>.</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>When a "religion" sets up the claim that it can pardon sins, educate the -children to believe it, <i>destroys those who deny it</i>, and fixes a scale -of money-payments for the pardon of sins, what sort of fruit is that -kind of tree likely to bear?</p> - -<p>If penance and payment rids me of sin, my conscience, like an unused -muscle, becomes enfeebled, and my proneness to sin is encouraged.</p> - -<p>Pope Leo X. was the Vicar of Christ who ordered lists of sin to be drawn -up, with the price of the pardon opposite each sin.</p> - -<p>(See History of Auricular Confession, by Count C. P. De Lasteyrie, Vol. -II., p. 132.)</p> - -<p>I will quote only a few of these tariff rates established by this -Infallible Pope.</p> - -<p>For allowing a ship to sail to convey merchandise to infidels, 100 d.</p> - -<p>For the absolution of any one practising usury, 7 d.</p> - -<p>For concubinage, 7 d.</p> - -<p>For intimacy with a woman <i>in a church</i>, 6 d.</p> - -<p>For pardon of him who has violated a virgin, 6 d.</p> - -<p>For one who has committed incest, 5 d.</p> - -<p>(The d. stands for the coin known as the ducat.)</p> - -<p>Can you imagine anything more conducive to immorality,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> than a -"religion," sanctified by the name of Christ, which teaches that its -priests can forgive sins, and which publishes a list of market prices -for such forgiveness? Do you marvel that Roman Catholic countries are -the immoral countries? Do you wonder at the mania for vice and crime -among the lower Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese?</p> - -<p>When a man could ravish a virgin for six ducats, what girl had any -safety except in the fear that libertines might have of her father or -her brother, or her sweetheart?</p> - -<p>What sort of hell would we have in America if popery gained the upper -hand, <i>and the negro bucks were taught that they could buy pardons for -violating white women</i>?</p> - -<p>God Almighty! It makes one sick to think that even now they are -admitting young black men to the priesthood.</p> - -<p>What will <i>they do</i>, inside the cloistered convents?</p> - -<p>No scream from within can be heard outside. Those dead walls tell no -tales. The Law dares not scrutinize the interiors where the negro -priests can penetrate; and we have no legal process to wring the dread -Secret out of the nun's cell!</p> - -<p>The Pope's Empire has been erected inside our Republic; and those who -represent our State, and our Law, are afraid of the Italian Pope and the -laws of the Italian church!</p> - -<p class="center">* * * * * * *</p> - -<p>When the Commissioners sent by King Henry VII. visited the monasteries, -the guilt of the inmates was so overwhelmingly evident that hardly any -attempt at denial was made. The Confession of the Prior and Benedictines -of St. Andrew's in Northampton is yet of record, and it is a fair -example. They confessed that they "had lived in idleness, gluttony, and -sensuality, for which the Pit of Hell was ready to swallow them up."</p> - -<p>(Burnett, Book III., p. 227.)</p> - -<p>Among the false "relics" that were found and which had long been used to -swindle ignorant believers out of their money, were a Wing of the Angel -that had brought to England the Spear which pierced Christ's side; some -of the coals that had roasted the Most Blessed Saint Anthony; numerous -pieces of "the true Cross;" a small bottle filled with Christ's blood; a -Crucifix which would sometimes bow its head, sometimes roll its eyes and -sometimes move its lips.</p> - -<p>(All this fraudulent rubbish was seized, taken to London, and publicly -destroyed.)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> - -<p>Bishop Burnett says—</p> - -<p>"But for the lewdness of the confessors of the Nunneries, and the great -corruption of that state, <i>whole houses being found almost all with -child</i>."</p> - -<p>That was in the year 1535, in England! In the year 1910, when the -nunneries were suddenly broken up in Spain, exactly the same state of -affairs was discovered! Some of the nuns came out leading their -children: some were so far advanced in pregnancy that their condition -was evident to all—and as to how many little bones were left in the -underground vaults, God alone knows.</p> - -<p>Bishop Burnett continues—</p> - -<p>"The dissoluteness of Abbots, and the other monks, and the friars, not -only with whores, but married women, and their unnatural lusts and other -brutal practices, <i>these are not fit to be spoken of</i>, much less -enlarged on, in a work of this nature." ...</p> - -<p><i>The full report was destroyed</i> by the fanatical papist Bishop Bonner, -at the beginning of the reign of Bloody Mary. (See "English -Reformation.") But Bishop Burnett saw extracts from it "concerning 144 -Houses, that contains abominations in it, equal to any that were in -Sodom!"</p> - -<p>Put this original evidence side by side with the confession already -quoted: put with it the testimony gathered by Duke Leopold of Tuscany: -add what Blanco White and Erasmus say; add what S. J. Mahoney and Manuel -Ferrando say: buttress this mass of evidence with what the Fathers of -the Church said, what all the escaped nuns and priests have alleged, and -compare this mountain of proof with what you <i>know</i> about human -nature—and how can you harbor a doubt that nunneries and monasteries -are today what they always have been? They are houses of hidden -iniquity, and nameless crimes—<i>AND YOU KNOW IT</i>!</p> - -<p>That marvellous man of letters, Erasmus, who <i>wrote</i> for the -Reformation, but who left Luther and others to <i>fight for it</i>, says this -in his "Colloquies."—</p> - -<p>"I hold up to censure those who entice lads and girls into monasteries -against their parents' wills, abusing their simplicity or superstition, -and persuading them that there is no chance of salvation but in the -cloister. If the world were not full of such anglers; if countless minds -had not been most miserably <i>buried alive</i> in such places, then I have -been wrong in my conclusions. But if ever I am forced to <i>speak out</i> -what<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> I feel upon this subject, I will paint the portrait of <i>these -kidnappers</i>, and so represent <i>the magnitude of the evil</i>, that every -one shall confess I have not been wrong."</p> - -<p>(Quoted in Day's "Monastic Institutions," p. 239.)</p> - -<p>The infamous Liguori—a Roman Catholic "Saint"—calmly assumes that many -inmates of the convents are captives, just as Erasmus had said they -were, and he lays down the law to these helpless, kidnapped captives -with all the malevolence of a grinning devil.</p> - -<p>"Now that you are professed in a convent, and that <i>it is impossible for -you to leave it</i>," &c. (Monastic Institutions, p. 294.)</p> - -<p>Liguori threatens the captive, telling the poor creature that if she -abandons herself to sadness and regret, <i>she will be made to suffer a -hell here</i>, and another hereafter.</p> - -<p>In other words, <i>Smile, prisoner, smile! or we will make the convent a -hell to you</i>!</p> - -<p>So says Saint Liguori, whose instructions to the priests, telling them -what filthy questions they must ask the Catholic women, are so "obscene" -that I was prosecuted by the Catholic Knights of Columbus for having -quoted some of them. If I had quoted all that Liguori wrote in coaching -the priests, <i>and teaching them virtually how to disrobe women of their -modesty as a prelude to their ruin</i>, I suppose the Government would have -ordered out the troops and had me shot.</p> - -<p class="space-above">Several times, Erasmus has been mentioned as one of the most terrific -accusers of the papal system, its frauds, impostures, greed, ferocity, -its fake miracles, its pagan adoration of images and relics, and its -rotten immorality. Perhaps it is due to the reader that I cite him to -"The Life and Letters of Erasmus," by the historian James A. Froude, -published in this country by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1895.</p> - -<p>From this comparatively recent work, the student can most readily obtain -a general idea of Popery, as described by one who was a devout Catholic, -but not a blind, servile papist. Erasmus was practically an orphan boy, -of somewhat uncertain parentage, whose life mystery and romance inspired -Charles Read to write the greatest of all novels, "The Cloister and the -Hearth."</p> - -<p>Mr. Froude tells the painful story of the forcing of Erasmus into -monastic vows; and then follows him as he develops into the most learned -and brilliant scholar of Europe.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> - -<p>Never a robust man, always more or less an invalid, Erasmus remained -inside the Roman pale, but abhorred the inherent vices of <i>the system</i>, -denounced those vices with a pen of fire, endured the terrors and -agonies of persecution within his church, was bitterly abused by the -vile priesthood whose putrid lives he uncovered, was menaced by the -dread Inquisition, and really suffered more keenly the penalties than -Luther did, <i>for telling the truth on popery</i>.</p> - -<p>Luther, a bull-necked, fearless <i>Man</i>, broke out, and fought popery from -the outside. Erasmus, like many of his predecessors, tried to reform it -<i>from within</i>, and he discovered at last that he might as well have been -trying to reform hell.</p> - -<p>The enraged monks and monkesses did not murder Erasmus, as they had -murdered Savonarola, Huss, Jerome, &c.; but it was because the Pope had -his hands full of other matters, and the time was not favorable for -burning the most illustrious scholar of Christendom.</p> - -<p>What did Erasmus say and write and publish against the vast parasitical -growth of paganism, fraud and imposture that had overgrown Christianity -under the pope?</p> - -<p>Read his "Praise of Folly," which has been translated into English and -can be had through any book-dealer.</p> - -<p>When you read it, remember that Erasmus was never answered, save by -<i>abuse and threats</i>.</p> - -<p>In his letters to the Prothonotary of the Pope, letters written for the -Pope to read, and which the Pope did read, Erasmus arraigns the -unmarried clergy of Rome, her monks and her nuns, her monasteries and -her convents, in the same terms that are used by the Preamble to the Act -of the British Parliament which stated that reasons for the dissolution -of these Romish hell-holes.</p> - -<p>The accusations fathered by Erasmus and laid before the Pope, agree in -every essential particular with the revelations of Blanco White, of S. -J. Mahoney, William Hogan, Joseph McCabe, Bishop Manuel Ferrando, -Margaret Shepherd, Maria Monk, and every other witness who has had the -courage to uncover these papal dens of infamy, torture, vice and crime.</p> - -<p>I have not the space to quote at any length from the Letters of Erasmus: -get the book and read it for yourself.</p> - -<p>But weigh this passage—</p> - -<p>"Men are threatened or tempted into vows of celibacy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> <i>They can have -license to go with harlots</i>, but they must not marry wives.</p> - -<p>They may keep concubines and remain priests. If they take wives, they -are thrown to the flames.</p> - -<p>Parents who design their children for a celibate priesthood <i>should -emasculate them in their infancy</i>, instead of forcing them, reluctant or -ignorant, <i>into a furnace of licentiousness</i>."</p> - -<p>What was this furnace of licentiousness? The cloistered convent, or the -monastery.</p> - -<p>In his notes to the New Testament, a Greek translation of which Erasmus -made, he said, after alluding to St. Paul's injunction about the "one -wife," that the priests could commit homicide, parricide, incest, -piracy, sodomy and sacrilege: "<i>these</i> can be got over, but <i>marriage is -fatal</i>."</p> - -<p>He adds that of all the enormous herds of priests, "very few of them are -chaste."</p> - -<p>In his letter to Lambert Grunnius, (in the year 1514) Erasmus gives an -awful picture of monastic slavery in houses "<i>which are worse than -brothels</i>."</p> - -<p>But once a young man is entrapped, there is no escape. "They may repent, -but the superiors will not let them go, <i>lest they should betray the -orgies which they have witnessed</i>."</p> - -<p>Then Erasmus tells of instances where men were buried alive inside the -monasteries to prevent their escape. "Dead men tell no tales!"</p> - -<p>Remember, reader! Erasmus was writing to the Pope's own Prothonotary, in -order that the "Holy Fathers" might of a surety <i>know</i> what was going on -inside the monastic houses! And in reply, the Prothonotary, Lambert -Grunnius, writes to Erasmus—</p> - -<p>"I read your letter aloud to the Pope, from end to end: several -cardinals and other great persons were present. The Holy Father was -charmed with your style!"</p> - -<p>And the Holy Father waxes wroth at some personal grievances of Erasmus, -and granted <i>him</i> relief from monkish diabolism; but what was done to -correct the frightful conditions which Erasmus had brought to the Pope's -personal attention?</p> - -<p>Nothing! Absolutely nothing. It was the same way when the exposures were -made in Spain, when they were made in Tuscany, when they were made in -England, when they were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> made in the Philippines! The answer of Rome is -ever the same: <i>Nothing can be done</i>.</p> - -<p>The Pope <i>knows</i> what enforced male celibacy does, when screened from -the civil law behind thick walls, <i>and given unlimited license among -young women, who cannot resist, and who cannot tell</i>!</p> - -<p>And you <i>know</i> that the Pope <i>does</i> know—for he also is a male like me -and you.</p> - -<p class="space-above">Again, Erasmus asks what would Saint Augustine say <i>now</i>, if he were to -see these convents and monasteries become "public brothels."</p> - -<p>In those standard works, "The History of Prostitution" and "Human -Sexuality," you will learn the fearful fact that the utter lewdness of -nuns and of wives who had been debauched by the priests, became so -universal that <i>the trade of the professional harlot was almost entirely -taken away from her</i>. Why should loose men <i>pay</i>, when there were so -many places of gratuitous entertainment?</p> - -<p>(Lest you heed the deceptive talk which endeavors to convince you that -the old tree is now bearing different fruit, read Hogan's "Popish -Nunneries," McCabe's "Ten Years in a Monastery," McCarthy's up-to-date -"Priests and People in Ireland;" and the astounding, undenied statements -of Bishop Manuel Ferrando, in "The Converted Catholic" magazine of New -York City.)</p> - -<p>In Delisser's powerful book, "Pope, or President?" there is a masterly -summing up against "Romanism as revealed by its own writers."</p> - -<p>Among other witnesses, he cites the evidence of Mahoney, the priest who -was examined by a Committee of the House of Commons.</p> - -<p>"A very nefarious use was made of convents," testified this honest -Irishman. His disclosures corroborated what another honest Irish priest, -Hogan, said several centuries later.</p> - -<p>"A woman ... is seduced into a convent to live in sin with the bishop -and other confessors. It is not human to place a priest where he is -allowed to fall, and suppose him innocent. Reader, commit your daughter -to the soldier or hussar who can marry her, rather than to a Romish -priest." ("Pope, or President," p. 59.)</p> - -<p>In fact, Delisser's chapter on "Convent Exposed" is one of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> the most -frightful that I ever read—doubly frightful because the Romanist -writers therein quoted <i>assume it to be their right</i> to mistreat women, -just as they please!</p> - -<p>It is only in such a chapter, composed of citations from orthodox Roman -Catholics, that you can obtain anything like a true conception of <i>the -priest's point of view</i>.</p> - -<p>They have the right to kidnap children: they have a right to restrain -prisoners; they have a right to compel obedience: they have a right to -shut out the State and its law: they have a right to punish the -refractory, to flog the unruly girl, to starve her into submission, to -degrade her with disgusting services, to use her person for their lusts!</p> - -<p><i>That is the priest's point of view!</i></p> - -<p>Study the horrible "theology" of Dens and Liguori: read what popes have -said in denial of a layman's right to criticise a priest; read what Rev. -Blanco White said of the systematic depravity of Romanism.</p> - -<p>Cardinal Newman had to acknowledge that Blanco White was a man or -irreproachable character, "a man you can trust." "I have the fullest -confidence in his word," &c.</p> - -<p>And what does this ex-Catholic, for whom Cardinal Newman vouched, have -to say about convents?</p> - -<p>"I cannot," says he, "find tints sufficiently dark to portray the -miseries which I have witnessed in convents. Crime, in spite of the -spiked walls and prison gates is there. The gates of the holy prison are -forever closed upon the inmates: <i>force and shame</i> await them wherever -they might fly."</p> - -<p>Then the ex-priest tells the tragic story of his two sisters, virtually -tortured to death in the Spanish convent, he being a witness to their -misery and powerless to relieve it. The system held them all!</p> - -<p>He continues—</p> - -<p>"Of all the victims of the church of Rome, <i>the nuns</i> deserve the -greatest sympathy."</p> - -<p>White's book was published in 1826. Like "Pope, or President," published -in 1859, it is now out of print. Only at long intervals may you see a -copy advertised in the catalogues of Old-book stores. <i>Some</i> agency has -been most active in destroying anti-Catholic books, and keeping them out -of our Public Libraries.</p> - -<p class="space-above">Consider this sentence in Hume's "History of England," Vol. II., p. -592.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Monstrous disorders are therefore said to have been found in many of -the religious houses, <i>whole convents of women abandoned to lewdness</i>; -signs of abortions procured, <i>OF INFANTS MURDERED</i>, of unnatural lusts -between persons of the same sex."</p> - -<p>Did poor Margaret Shepherd, or Maria Monk make any accusations that were -worse than these which we find in a standard history of England?</p> - -<p>In Aubrey's "Rise and Growth of the English People," the indictment -against the convents and the monasteries is equally severe. See Vol. I., -p. 80 and 81.</p> - -<p>In Lecky's "History of European Morals," we have exactly the same -arraignment of this unnatural and polluting system.</p> - -<p>In Bower's "History of the Popes," in Hallam's "Constitutional History -of England," and in every trustworthy account of the system of enforced -celibacy we have the same horrible, <i>but natural</i>, description of the -lives led by those full-sexed members of both sexes, who cannot mate -legally and decently, but who are given access to each other under cover -of night, behind the curtain of thick walls, and with the assurance -that, <i>so long as no scandal leaks out</i>, no notice will be taken of what -is done inside the "holy" brothel.</p> - -<p>The very language in which the virgin girl is made to pledge herself as -"the spouse of Christ," is so abominably obscene and suggestive that it -is bound to plant impure curiosity in her mind—and, with a girl, -<i>impure curiosity</i> is the lure to the fall. Not especially wishing to be -again indicted for quoting the Pope's nasty language, I will forbear. -Even in the Latin, it is so vile, lewd, lascivious, filthy, <i>and nasty</i>, -that I marvel how any white woman, under any circumstances, can allow a -beast of a man to use that language to her, <i>and not slap his face</i>.</p> - -<p>The language is quoted in "Pope, or President," pages 86 and 360. The -"Nun Sanctified," of "Saint" Alphonsus Liguori, and the Theology of -Peter Dens will give the reader a fairly correct idea of what sort of a -slave the priests make of a woman, <i>after</i> she has been ensnared into -taking the black veil.</p> - -<p>In the famous investigation of the convents of Tuscany, in 1775, one of -the nuns gave testimony which, is singularly piquant and unique. -Besides, it remained uncontradicted. The name of the witness was Sister -Flavia Peraccini. After telling of many escapades she had witnessed -inside the convents, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> of many merry times the priests and the nuns -had with one another, Sister Flavia Peraccini deposed—</p> - -<p>"A monk said to me that if a nun's veil were placed on one pole, and a -monk's cowl on another, so great is the sympathy between the veil and -the cowl they would come together, <i>and unite</i>." ("Unite" is the modest -word: "copulate," is <i>meant</i>.)</p> - -<p>"I say," continues the Sister, "I say, and repeat it, that whatever the -Superiors know, they do not know <i>the least portion</i> of the great evils -that pass between the monks and the nuns."</p> - -<p>The foregoing is a mere trifle compared to the whole amount of the -undisputed testimony taken by Duke Leopold of Tuscany in 1775. Have men -and women changed? Is human nature the same?</p> - -<p>It was for all people and all ages that the inspired writer wrote—</p> - -<p>"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let <i>every man</i> have his own wife; -and let <i>every woman</i> have her own husband." (I. Cor. 7:12.)</p> - -<p>The most powerful argument and authority against the Roman papacy on -this question <i>is that of Jesus Christ</i>.</p> - -<p>Virtually, he said that <i>a man must make himself a eunuch</i>—if not born -so—<i>before he could live like a eunuch</i>!</p> - -<p>If the word of Christ is not conclusive and binding, where shall we seek -the truth?</p> - -<p>The trouble with papists is, they are educated outside of the Bible and -common sense; and they seldom free their minds from the priestly -domination established in childhood.</p> - -<p class="center">(THE END.)</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Vices of Convents and Monasteries, -Priests and Nuns, by Thos. E. 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