TO THOSE WHO LOVE VIRTUE AND HATE VICE
This Book is Dedicated,
WITH RECOLLECTION OF THE KINDNESS SHOWN BY THE FRIENDS IN BOSTON MUSIC HALL DURING TWENTY-TWO WEEKS, WHERE MANY OF THESE TRUTHS WERE PROCLAIMED, AND THE BOOK WHY PRIESTS SHOULD WED, FOUND ITS FIRST SUPPORTERS AND MOST ENTHUSIASTIC FRIENDS.
PREFACE
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�WHY PRIESTS SHOULD WED,� the book so praised and cursed, so fought by Rome, and so prayed for by the good and true, is an outgrowth. It came itself. It came in good time, and at the right time. A strange Providence sent a priest who had recently married to my house. His story was startling and appalling. "Why Priests Should Wed," became a thought. It grew into a lecture, which, delivered before a company of ministers, surprised and amazed them. They said, if the half of this is true, the people should know it. This, with other facts and influences, brought the purpose to tell the truth to the people. The work began. To prosecute it, I resigned the care of my church, gave up my home, crossed the continent, returned, and saw Romanism with its clutch upon the throat of the nation, dominating the press, taking charge of our postal facilities, occupying seats upon our benches of justice, controlling our largest cities, having charge of the army, ruling the President, the Cabinet, and Congress, and so influencing politics, that to speak the truth required a sacrifice of friendship and prosperity difficult to imagine, and terrible to endure. Our fathers were alarmed when it was prophesied that such a state of things as now exists was among the possibilities. Their children seem dead to the peril, now that it is upon them.
Into Boston I went, on the second sabbath of 'August, 1887, and called attention to the fact that the women and girls in the Roman-Catholic Church were exposed to peril, because of the character of priests who ministered in the confessional, and who illustrated in their lives the creed that fills the church with pollution, and the countries where it is supreme with poverty, ignorance, and shame. Facts multiplied; they were brought by women and by men who knew whereof they affirmed. They who have read the book, like it. As pure and as noble women as live heard the lectures, and demanded that the book be printed to save women and girls from being asked questions which pollute and degrade. The book reveals the abominations of the wicked one. "It is awful, not because of what is in it " for there is not a line that is impure or obscene in it, "but because of what is left out of it." No one need fear to read it, or to have their children do the same. It has been. well described by a gifted woman and mother who said, "I began it with trepidation, and ended it with thanksgiving, and commend it to all.� An eminent minister uses this language: "I have read the book, and have reason to believe every word of it is truth. While it contains appalling revelations, uncovering, as it does, the existence of abominable practices and horrid iniquities, yet the manner of presenting them is so skillful and Christian, and the form of expression so eminently chaste, that no offence is given to the most fastidious reader; the only feelings aroused being those of loathing and indignation for the evils and a desire to move at once for their correction and suppression. It has saved multitudes already. It is believed that it will deliver from the bondage of a degrading superstition millions more. It is my faith that God gave this world to His Son, and that Romanists will be saved whenever they hear the truth, because the truth shall make them free." Father Chiniquy declares the book to be "one of the most deadly blows ever given to Romanism on this continent." Friends of all classes who believe in the Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man, are invited to join us in helping the book to become an increasing blessing to the world.
JUSTIN D. FULTON.
INTRODUCTION . . . .page 1-8
Romish Priests little known. -Anthony Comstock's Letter. -The Wicked One Hidden. -Romanism the Religion of the Natural Heart. -Threat of Mons. Capel.Worship in the Roman-Catholic Church a Senseless Procedure. -Harlot of the Tiber. -Fifty Millions of People with No Surrender. -Victory on the Way.
CAN WE UNCOVER THE PRACTICES OF ROMISH PRIESTS! �.page 9-30
Destiny of Millions Hinges on Answer to this Question. Romanism dressed as an Angel of Light. -Its Seeming and its Deception. -Rome hates the Book. -Duke of Guise. -Wonderful Truth. -Romanism described in Scripture. -The Pope a Prisoner in the Vatican. Could Priests marry:, It would revolutionize Society. -Slander, what it is and what It is not. -Peril of Women. -European Statistics show double the amount of Prostitution among Roman Cathollcs. -Father Chiniquy's Question.-Truth should be uncovered. Dens and Liguori ought to be made to speak out. Their Works In Latin known to Priests only. -Described by Millman, Lea, and Hogan. -Terrible Revelations. -What ought to be done. -Commission by Legislature. -Priests should be judged by the same Rule that prevails in Evangelical Denominations. -One thing all can do, tell the Truth about Rome.
WHY PRIESTS SHOULD WED. THE QUESTION ANSWERED�.page 31-43
Question opens to Dark Passages of Life In Europe and America. --Homes in Peril. --Millions of Women and Girls asked Questions by Priests, which, if taken upon the Lips of Christian Ministers, would ruin them. Should Romanists be tolerated in doing this more thin Christians, Jews, or Infidels? -Hogan's Terrible Charge against the Catholics of Albany. -Michelet's Auricular Confession. -The Invisible Enemy. -The Priest a Plaque. --Celibacy Unnatural and Unwise.
The Unmarried Confessor described by Paul Louis Courier. -Confessing Women.-Priest's Opportunity. -Liorente uncovers the Conduct of EL Capuchin Friar. -Priestly Adulteries covered up destroy the Hopes of American Life.
HISTORY OF THE FIGHT WITH CELIBACY . . . .page 44-70
Celibacy In Antagonism with the Teaching of God's Word -first enjoined by Pope Siricius, 884 to 398. -Its Effect on Morals. -Clement of Alexandria.-The Fight in England. -Edgar in his Variations of Popery reveals the Dark and Dirty Side of Celibacy. --Origen, Jerome, Chrysostom, Benedict, detail Bad Experiences. Clemens, Augustine, Chrysostom, Calmet, praise Matrimony. --Domesticism. -Concubinage. -Romish Priests now marry. --Walsh, Trappist Monk, Bishop Rogan) charging the Priesthood with Drunkenness.
THE PRIEST AND THE CONFESSIONAL . . . . . .page 71-94
Priest and Penitent. -Children's Confession. -Chiniquy's Experience. -Commandments, and the Seven Sacraments. -Woman in the Confessional. -Confession of a Dying Priest. -Abominations of Auricular Confession. -Liguori excuses the Priest. who falls once a Mouth. -The Penitent Forever Lost.
WHY PRIESTS DO NOT WED; OR, THE PRIESTS' SUB STITUTION FOR MARRIAGE . . . . . . . .page 95-181
Pio Nono's Invention.-Pope's Income.-Blessed Creatures.-Qualifications for Membership.-Perversions of Scripture. -Music Hall Experience of a Husband. -No Priest allowed to be Married. -Priests and Bishops may sin. -Father Quinn's Question. -Virgin Mary Protectress of the Organization. -Badges of the Order --The Book. -Places and Arrangements. -Lavish Expenditures of Bishops. -Protestants too Generous in patronizing Romish Pairs. -Dissipation. Apartments in Nunneries. -Privileges of Bishops. Romanist described. -Special Cases.-The Inquisitorial Method. --A Martyr to Virtue. -A Priest's Peril. --Why cannot such Deeds be enacted?
PRIESTS IN NUNNERIES AND CONVENTS . . . . . Page 132-151
Priests work in Darkness. -Bound to the Vatican. The Italy of Monks, Habitation of Devils. -Without Popery, Italy a Garden of Delights. -Abuses. -Scipio di Ricci. -Leopold. -Suppression of Monasteries and Nunneries-Confessions in Convent.-Miss Henrietta Caracciolo's Experiences.-Nuns love a Priest. -Garlbaldi's Testimony. -Inside of a Convent. -Present Nunneries a Growth. -The Slaughter of the Innocents. -American Husbands ought to be on Guard Infanticide tolerated in Convents, punished In Daily Life. -Priests can get rid of Women. -How the Mother Abbess kills Infants-Nunneries should be examine & -The Truth should be told.
MARIA MONK'S AWFUL DISCLOSURES CORROBORATED�.page 152-177
In 1836 the Story of Maria Monk broke upon the world. -- Nunneries Poor Schools.-Nuns Poor Teachers.-Opposed to the Bible. --Perils of Girls.-Out of the Coffin into Shame.-Carnal Indulgence of Priests defended by Nuns. -Infants murdered by Nuns.-Messina Italy, its Festa.-Children slain with Consent of Priests.-Marta Monk assaulted.-How Priests can enter Nunnerles.-No, Respect for Confession.-Priests canvassing a Town in the Interest of Lust.-Romish Retreats a Drunken Revel.-Cover taken off by Father Chinlquy. --Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk corroborated.
INQUISITORIAL TORTURE IN NUNNERIES AND ELSE WHERE . . . . .page 178-199
Judas Iscariot Progenitor of the Inquisition.-The Holy Office a Place of Barbarity.-Born in 1198, lives wherever Romanism thrives.-Murder of a Virtuous Woman by Nuns and Priests.-Cells in Cellars for Purposes of Torture.-Cruel Penances.-Children born in Nunneries.-To save her Child, Maria Monk fled. -Her Daughter, a Child of a Priest, went to the bad.
THE CONVENT BURNED IN CHARLESTOWN, MASS�.page 200-226
Six Months in a Convent published in 1835.--The Pioneer, New England stirred.-In 1831 Miss Reed entered Mount Benedict.-A Servant's Influence.-How won from Protestantism to Romanism. -Deception all the way.-Professing a Religion without Christ. How they pass a Day.-Rules by the Reverend Mother.-Death-bed Scene. -Funeral of a Sister. Escape of Miss Reed from Mount Benedict.--Character of the Founders of Mount Benedict. -The Riot. Its Cause.-The Press championing Rome.-Miss Josephine M. Bunkley tells of the Morals of St. Joseph's Convent in Maryland.-No Better than those of the Black Nunnery, --Assaulted by a. Priest.-Mount Benedict In Bad Repute.-Truth denied .--Maria Monk not an Imposter, but a Truthful Woman.-The Story she told deserves a Resurrection. � It is getting it.
ARE ROMAN-CATHOLIC PRIESTS IMPROVING IN CHAR ACTER? ....Page 227-253
The Dream that America was to Americanize the Roman Catholic Church is being exploded.-Romanists are Romanist,-They reject the Bible and Progress. -In Educational Methods they cling to the Past. -The Inside of a Training School, -Bible cast out, Fable brought In. -Father McCarthy pronounces the School System a National Fraud. -A Catholic replies, -Rev. Florence McCarthy assaults an Organist and a Servant, and stays in the Church. -Bishop and Priest treat Public Opinion with Contempt. -Chickens come Home to roost. -Mayor of Allegheny City, Penn. Fight with a Bishop. -Count Joseph de Maistre's book. -Purity of Irish Catholic Females disputed. E. H. Walsh, his Attack on Romish Priests. -Our Duty: warn, exhort, entreat.
THE RECOIL AND THE RESOLVE; OR, THE SCALES FALL FROM THE EYES or THE PRIEST, AND Rome's POWER DIES. . . . . . .page 254-276
Out of the Swamp to Plateau. -Story of a, Priest who did not fall. -The Bible saved him. -Value of the Scriptures. -Tempted by Priests and Women. -A Minister and his Wife an Example. -Love for a Penitent fouhgt. -Questions that he answered He saves a Nun. -His Resolve. -His Escape. -Another Priest married and then converted. -Out of the Confessional Into Christ.
LIGUORI AND DENS . . . . . .page 277-301
Names Synonymous for All that Is Vile. -Lessons that they taught. -Americans Asleep. -Priest should have his Own Wife and not the Wife of Some One Else. Nineteen Ways of Solicitation. -Priests' Illegitimate Children. -Penalty of accusing a Priest. -Woman a Slave. -Priest the Master. -Concubines of the Clergy. --Priests and Women. -Prostitutes sanctioned. -The quintessence of Popery concealed. -Dens worse than Liguori. -Too Bad for Description. -We close the Book.
NO SURRENDER TO ROME . . . . . page 302-316
The Beneficent Ministry of Rome to Mankind, though praised by a Presbyterian Divine, a Delusion and a Snare. -stupidity not Innocence. -Romanism the Pot Error of the Devil. -Persecution of Protestants in France and In, Ireland. -The Statesmanship of Rome undeserving of Praise. -The Battle raging above Washburn's Great Speech. -Dr. McGlynn tells the Truth. -Rome ready for the Death Grapple. -Are the Lovers of Clod ready? If not, get read*.
HOW PRIESTS INVADE THE HOME . . . . .page 317-339
Priests invade the Homes of Protestants, Catholics, and All. -In the Vatican Three Hundred Women. -for what ? -Monasteries and Nunneries built in Close Proximity-why ? -Vice tolerated Pollutes. -Mexico and her Deliverance- David A. Well's Study. -Rome as a Foe to Freedom. -Orangemen, their Origin and their Work. -Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. -An Old Curse. -How China resisted the Spiritual Control of Romanism. -America the Land of Homes. -Fight for it. -Victory at the Door.
PRIEST IN THE TOILS�.Page 340-356
Roman Catholic Priests in the Toils. -The Priest on the Train to Chicago with his Woman. -Prof. J. T. Townsend's charge of Priestly Immorality. -The trouble at Saltillo, Mexico. -The Trouble in Brooklyn. -Father Yodyzus Arrested. -E. H. Walsh and Father Chiniquy's Commendatory Words.
PRIEST WRECKED BY HOPELESS LOVE . . . .page 357-365
Charles Reade and "The Cloister and the Hearth." -A Mother's sad Wall. -Father Leyden and Steasea Cummings' Deathbed Scene. -The Mother's Remonstrance.-The Nephew of Bishop Loughlin. -Influence of Priestly Turpitude Invades the Schools. -Will Americans Take Warning?
FIGHTING PRIESTS, FRIGHTENED ROMANISTS, NOTHING ON THE BLOTTER . . . . . . page 367-377
Fathers McDonald and Hill. -Their Fight-Gossip Introduces a Woman. -Pather Corrigan in Jersey City. -Father Corbett in Lincoln, Neb. -The Trouble in the Religion of Christ is Unknown in the Roman Catholic Church. -Our Duty.
18 AMERICAN LIBERTY IMPERILED BY ROMISH PRIESTS�.page 378-390
In Politics Priests have Rule.-Priest's Oath, Bishop's Oath, Cardinal's Oath and Jesuit's Oath-Tom Sherman. -To Tolerate Romanism Is to Betray Liberty.