Letter to All Civilized Peoples – Subject: The Pope—Foe of Mankind. Part I

Degradation and demoralization of the confessional and kindred agencies.

Fellow-men:
David, King and Prophet, filled with a genuine and grateful exaltation of spirit, at all the benefits received from his God, exclaimed:

O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.

For this sublime invocation of the Royal Prophet papal eulogists of to-day may invite us to sing:

O praise the pope, all ye humankind: praise him, all ye nations. For his goodness is ever at command of highest bidder, and his favor endureth as long as suppliant’s gold holds out.

The great whore of Babylon, by all sane interpreters of Holy Writ held to be the Papacy, is ever active in securing new fields for the exploitation of victims and the garnering of harvests of infamy-won gold, characteristic of whorishness, never to be satisfied!

The whore of the seven hills of old Rome has in America an army of 20,000 priests and as many more monks of various type and degree, holding in White Slavery the most atrocious 150,000 nuns and half a million at least of other women. The ordinary white slave receives some form of recompense for her servitude: the Romanistic white slave naught but black-hearted injury and, finally, neglect, cruel and callous.

Lord Robert Montague, who, when the British aristocracy felt, half a century ago, a strong Rome-ward impetus, became a Roman Catholic, had excellent opportunities to study from the inside the iniquitous workings of the Papal System. Given an Irish seat in the British House of Commons by the Hierarchy of Rome, Lord Robert stood for a time in high favor with papal priesthood and prelacy. But his ancestral Protestant blood at length recoiled from the lethal touch of the Vaticanist serpent. Leaving the Romish System, he wrote, with remarkable clearness, power, and repudiative skill, concerning the Papal System of human enslavement. Of Lord Robert, as writer, it may well be repeated, Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit. Read, for example, his exposition, masterly and unassailable, of the Roman Curia:

The System of the Church of Rome is a wonderful mechanism. Its center is the pope. Yet it is independent of the pope. Many a pope has been a dotard: very many have been debauchees. Yet the machine works on irrespectively of his idiosyncrasies. It is the cabinet, the privy council, the college of cardinals that governs.

Very true, indeed, the statement of Lord Robert Montague:

The advance of the papacy has always been the advance of the plague, irresistible, unsparing, remorseless, and deadly.

POPE ALEXANDER VI.

This is the infamous Pope Borgia, whose reign and rule rival in licentiousness, those of the pagan emperor, Nero. Borgia’s daughter, Lucretia, with whom he is believed to have had incestuous relations, became mother, afterwards, of several children, from whom the leading European royal families of this twentieth century, Protestant and Catholic, are descended.

For fuller particulars concerning this murderer, adulterer, and incestuous brute—this “infallible Vicar of Christ,” see “Romanism— A Menace to the Nation,” pp. 323-331.

Gury’s “Manual of Moral Theology” is the text-book of all leading Roman Catholic theological seminaries of the present day in the United States, and several other countries. The author was a Jesuit.

Jesuits are the most popular of confessors. Priests guilty of gravest crimes flock to Jesuits for absolution. To priestly offenders the Jesuit Father confessor is very “easy” indeed. To adulterous priest, to priest guilty of seduction or sodomy; to self-abusing, drunken priest “easy,” in very truth, the Jesuit confessor, especially if offending priest has money, political pull, or good, solid standing with his bishop.

The poor workingman sinner may be obliged to do severe penance—to fast, to pray for hours on bended knee for offenses against God’s law; taxed he may be very heavily, as to purse and physical endurance, by the fashionable Jesuit confessor, so lenient with priestly or episcopal transgressor.

Let besilked and perfumed adulteress enter the Jesuit’s confessional, and she is at once made welcome. Her “slight irregularities ‘ ‘ are dealt with in spirit of unctuous leniency. To sisters in sin she proclaims “Father Stanislaus’ ‘ the “sweetest of confessors.” ‘ He gives her, for multiplied adulteries, just “one Our Father” and “one Hail Mary” to recite, and then she goes forth to sin some more.

To the rich and the powerful the Jesuit confessor is studiously and systematically complacent. The poor and powerless he repels by stern frigidity and relentless severity. Instructed by Gury’s Theology as to sins of the flesh, committed or committable, by women married or single, he seeks to attract to his confessional women, and not men. Twenty-five women and girls, to one man or boy, go to confession.

Are regularly and frequently confessing Catholic women better than Protestant women, who, abhorring the very suggestion of confession to a sinful man, avoid it as they would death itself? The records of police courts, of county jails, of reformatories, penitentiaries, and State prisons prove the contrary. Prostitution draws the major part of its recruits everywhere from Catholic womanhood and girlhood, perverted by the lewd and lascivious interrogatories of the Jesuit confessors. Nearly all modern confessors may be, whether members or not of the Society of Jesus, termed Jesuitical, for all study theological textbooks whose authors are Jesuits.

With what species of filth the minds of Jesuitically trained confessors are filled, I refer the reader to ” Saint’ ‘ Liguori’s and ” Father’ ‘ Gury’s ” Moral (?) Theology,” which contains a mass of sensual abominations that hell itself alone could suggest. The priest is bound to question the girl or woman penitent in manner most forbidding. Not alone her most secret actions, in all their revolting details, but her most private thoughts must be circumstantially related to carnal male monster sitting in the confessional.

Liguori and Gury make the young matron mental slave—often, too, alas! corporeal—of the wily and obscene confessor. He questions her as to her most private and sacred relations with husband—who may be, perhaps, a Protestant. Bound, she is, to detail minutely her carnal intercourse with lawful consort, as if such were sinful. To excuse his perverse questions, the confessor declares it his duty to find out if married female penitent is guilty of sin in her sexual relations with husband!

If American manhood, if the manhood of the civilized world realized the infamy of the questions put by unmarried priests—many indecent in life and character—to girls and women, for the most part of purest life and disposition, a speedy end were put, the world over, to this infamy operated under the sacred name of religion. Liguori’s theology, the fountain of all the vile theological treatises of the confessional, placed in the hands of priests, could not be translated into any form of English which were not appallingly disgusting and repellent.

Yet, guided by this text-book, inspired by this sensuous author and his disciples, the confessor is directed to put to maiden and to matron seeking divine grace and guidance in the confessional the most indecent of questions, virtually instructing young souls in practices of infamy the most darksome and stupendous. Why does civilization stand for such organized debauchery of the young? From no other institution but the papal church would such crime upon national youth and human vitality be permitted. When will the governments of the modern civilized world arise against the White Slavery which has center of activity in the confessionals of Rome’s corrupt priesthood?

Instructions most minute and disgusting are given by confessors, not only to married young women, but to virgins about to wed, as to when, how often, and in what manner they are to yield husband his marriage rights. Well does Prof. Joseph F. Berg, in his “Synopsis of the Moral (?) Theology of ‘ Father ‘ Peter Dens,” say of the chapters thereof, treating of sins of licentiousness:

It would not be decent to translate even the least offensive of these chapters. The most outrageous forms of bestiality which it is possible for iniquity to assume are gravely discussed, and held up with most revolting particularity before students of divinity, who are under a vow of chastity and perpetual celibacy. The filthiness of this slimy puddle of Romish casuistry is so offensive that I must be excused from stirring the scum; I can not permit its effluvia even from a distance to annoy the mental olfactories of my reader by a translation. — Berg, Synopsis of the Moral Theology of Peter Dens, pp. 339, 340.

Come we now to the doctrine of Mental Restriction,’ or Mental Reservation, under which Jesuitical teaching Catholics may lie for sake of Holy Mother Church. Mendacity may take any one of several forms. A liar may lie grievously by silence; by verbal negation or verbal affirmation; by a partially uttered truth that is a whole lie.

Professor Berg, in his “Synopsis of Peter Dens’s Moral Theology” (pp. 316-320), concludes with these striking observations:

The closing remarks of this section [Dens on Lying] plainly show that equivocation is no sin, in the estimation of a disciple of Peter Dens. This is no new discovery, and it is therefore not becoming that we should speak of it as something strange or unexpected. A very little acquaintance with the practice of the veracious pupils and admirers of Peter Dens is sufficient to teach us that they understand the art of equivocation to perfection. But the horrid attempt to make the Blessed Saviour, whose title is, faithful and true witness, encourage the practice of this detestable vice, is blasphemy for which we were not prepared. The very attempt at refutation would be irreverent. Let the reader turn to Luke 24: 19, and he will see that nothing could have been further from the Saviour’s mind than the intention of furnishing a precedent for the deceitful equivocations which are the glory of the Church of Rome.”

Jesuit Gury, in various portions of his Moral (?) Theology, particularly in his treatises De Actibus Humanis; De Justitia et Jure, De Contractibus and De VIII. Decalogi Prcecepto, not only excuses, but commends falsehood, especially when the interests of Holy Mother Church are concerned. Gury’s teaching is just this, in brief:

The Catholic may lie ; may break an oath, commit theft or violate solemn obligation, if, in his judgment, Holy Mother Church is to benefit from such perversity. Lie, in fact, must the devout Catholic, break, must he, solemnly sworn oath or any other obligation, commit theft or even murder, if Holy Church’s needs call, in the opinion of his confessor, for such misdeed.”

The Ten Commandments of God translated into papal language are thus rendered:

1. One Lord and one God shalt thou adore, in the “Supreme Pontiff” at Rome, “Vicar of Christ,” and like unto Christ, sinless and infallible.

2. Bless every day of thy life the holy name of pope and pontiff, proving thy sincerity by daily offerings to “Peter’s Pence.”

3. Keep holy the feast days of “Holy Church,” especially those of the Blessed Booze and the cherished St. Boodle.

4. Honor the “Holy Fathers” of thy Church and reverence the “Holy Mothers” of White Slavery, toiling so steadily for “Holy Fathers” comfort.

5. Kill thou shalt not, save “Heretics”, “Schismatics” and other enemies of the blessed White Slavery of the Vatican.

6. Commit not adultery, unless thou faithfully pay the price set by “Holy Church” for many masses for “souls in Purgatory.”

7. Steal not, unless to hand over proceeds to “Holy Fathers” for saloon, red light, and other agents of needed priestly refreshment and recuperation.

8. Do not lie, save and except when duty to “Holy Church” and the interests of its White Slave and Wine Room activities demand.

9. Covet not thy neighbor’s wife, unless thou art prelate, priest, or monk.

10. Covet not any of thy neighbor’s goods that thou couldst not turn readily into coin of the realm, for the benefit of White Slave Institutions and Temples of Sodom, under control of “Holy Fathers” for the spiritual upliftment of men and women.

The hugest and most heartless trust in the world, and at the same time most criminal, is the Church of Rome. Its first effect is to kill patriotism; for it demands for its sovereign (the pope) alien and hostile to the independence of every nation in the world, the first endeavors, affections, and the deathless allegiance of men of every country under the sun, especially that of Roman Catholics. If a man have anything of affection and allegiance left after the Vatican is satisfied, he may give it to country, to king, to flag, and then only by permission of the pope!

The most Catholic populations of the world, those of France, Italy, Portugal, and Mexico, have, in consequence, cut loose from Rome. Spain and others must, for self-preservation, soon follow. Impossible for any people, for any government, to stand in with the papacy, without giving up everything that racial or national self-respect, traditional and geographic ties, governmental and civic achievement, invest with sacredness.

“God is God, and Mahomet is his prophet” is cry of ferocious Mussulman; “The pope, my Lord God on earth, forever ” cry of the sincere Romanist. Why does decay cover, with gloomy, death-like pall, every country afflicted with papalism? Because the hearts of that country’s people are turned away from its betterment to the aggrandizement of a greedy, insatiable autocracy with headquarters on the yellow Tiber.

There are 3,000,000 Catholic Federationists in the United States, all actively at work, not for American, but for papal interests. “Forced into politics” the Knights of Columbus claim to be; but their politics is as yellow as tawny old Tiber itself. “Forced into politics,” even as are the Knights of Columbus, is the German Federation of Catholic Societies. The Catholic Union and Times, March 13, 1913, publishes the following:

The Federation of German Catholic Societies of this city has sent a copy of the following letter to the congressman from this section and to the United States senators from this state:

Honorable Sir: We, the undersigned, representing the Federation of German Catholic Societies of Erie County, New York, in compliance with a resolution adopted by said body, herewith protest against the appointment of General Nelson A. Miles as a member of the committee on celebration of the 100th anniversary of Commodore Perry’s victory on Lake Erie. We protest on the ground that General Miles is not a proper person to represent any constituency of true and loyal American citizens, as he is the head and representative of a bigoted and unpatriotic organization calling itself the Guardians of Liberty, an organization whose avowed purpose is in contravention to the constitution of the United States. It seeks to deprive a large portion of the citizens of this country of the rights and privileges guaranteed to all citizens, without regard to racial or religious affiliations.

We very much regret that we must register a protest conferring any honor upon a man who is supposed to have distinguished himself in the past in the service of our common country. We would have preferred very much to join our fellow-citizens in any mark of honor or distinction that might have been accorded him on account of his past service. But in view of his prominence and leadership in this un-American and unpatriotic organization we feel that we would render ourselves and our ten thousand members unworthy of the dignity of American citizenship if we did not resent the insult, which, through his appointment, is directed to more than fourteen millions of the population of this country, which includes men and women in all branches of our government, national, state, and municipal.

Furthermore, we fear that if this insulting appointment is not revoked, the celebration will be a fiasco, and the effect which is so much desired by all true and loyal citizens be entirely lost.

Very respectfully yours,
Nicholas Scherer,
Henry J. Doll,
JOS. M. SCHIFFERLI,
Committee.
Alois J. Werdein,
Secretary.

When General Miles was fighting his country’s battles on hardest fields of struggle—first in the war between the States ; again, in repressing the savage red man of the wild West ; and later, in the effacement of Spain and Spanish papalism from America—where were these Scherers, Dolls, Schifferlis, and Werdeins? In Bavaria, Wirtemberg, or Naples? They were not, at all events, at the front. Not at any front can they be ever found, save at that of popish legions, warring against Americans and Americanism.

Not satisfied with Joseph Patrick Tumulty as Private Secretary to President Wilson, the papal agents, “forced” into American politics, have successfully landed in other high governmental places Charles Patrick Neill and Dudley Field Malone. How many more will they land before President Wilson’s term is completed? The Catholic Union and Times, of Buffalo, might tell. In its issue of March 13, 1913, it boasts proudly of Neill ‘s appointment, which is very distasteful to the South:

Washington, March 11.—The most important appointment that President Wilson has yet made, as indicating a general policy by the new administration, came last week, when he sent to the senate the name of Charles Patrick Neill for commissioner of labor.

Mr. Neill was appointed labor commissioner by President Roosevelt and was reappointed by Mr. Taft, so the President has filled this important post with a man who has served through two Republican administrations and whose leanings are supposed to have been toward Republican principles.

President Taft had appointed Mr. Neill for a third term, but his appointment was one of the number that were held up by the Democrats in the senate. His reappointment by Mr. Wilson is regarded in Washington by independent observers as admirable, so far as the interests of the Bureau of Labor are concerned, and indicate conclusively that Mr. Wilson is looking first to the character of the men, and not to the political service they have rendered.

Mr. Neill was born at Rock Island, 111., in 1865, but spent most of his life in Texas. He has degrees from the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins. He was the first instructor of Political Economy in the Catholic University of America.

No use has Knights of Columbus’s organ for non-Romanist fraternal societies. No use for the Masonic or other orders devoted solely to man’s upliftment, through brotherhood, and free absolutely from Romanist tinge or taint. Bonds and barriers it would place between honest Catholic wishing to join the popeless and priestless orders of true benevolence, commanding, in thorough papal style, every Catholic to enter pope and priest-ridden society only. Here is the mandate :

No Catholic need join outside societies to get insurance or to make friends. We have plenty of societies—religious, social, fraternal, protective. The man who permits himself to be led into the secrets of the outsiders is foolish. — The Catholic Forester.

Political machines many has this world seen from the days of Nebuchadnezzar to Nero; from Nero to Pope Borgia (Alexander VI); and from Pope Borgia to Pope Sarto (Pius X); but no political machine ever devised by the wicked ingenuity of man has equaled, in the deadliness of its execution, the extortionate exactions of its rapacity, the mercilessness of its unceasing demands, the papal machine doing business at Rome. All honor to the immortal Elizabeth of England for delivering her race forever from the thraldom of such a machine. All honor to Luther, the bold, majestic, and magnificent apostle of conscientious reform in Germany, for delivering the Teuton and Scandinavian races forever from that vile and sanguinary curse ; all honor, also, to the French Revolution for inaugurating for Latin Europe an era of liberation from Vaticanistic vengeance and papalistic pollution; all honor to the intrepid reformer, Savonarola, who was burned to death in 1498. When the bishop of Vasona said to the dying Savonarola, “I separate thee from the Church Militant and the Church Triumphant,” Savonarola replied in firm tones, “Not from the Church Triumphant—that is beyond thy power,”

The Romish Church would now like to enroll Savonarola amongst its “Saints.” Having put him to cruel death, the papacy sees, with deepest regret, that his name and fame have not suffered in popular estimation. Hence the Church of the twentieth century would gladly place the name of Savonarola as a “Saint” on that roll where the crafty Leo XIII recently inscribed that of the infamous Inquisition leader of Spain, the bloody Torquemada.

But Rome may keep its peace; humanity has already made of Savonarola one of the patron saints of conscientious freedom, as it has of Luther, Calvin, and the many martyrs of the Bloody Mary’s inglorious reign. The world is unerring in its judgment of men, unselfish and brave enough to die for the race. It has made saints of Livingstone and Lincoln, of Washington and of Wilberforce; and it will go on, without let or hindrance from papal intriguer or Vaticanist corruptionist, adding to its list of the sanctified, name after name of emancipator, whether soldier, statesman, or divine.

Rome sacrificed Joan of Arc, the worshipful maid of Domremy; burnt that noble, heaven blessed girl at the stake, and then, to cover its own infamy, made her, centuries after her cruel sacrifice, a “saint!” Joan of Arc is more than a Roman saint. She is, like Savonarola, a saint in Humanity’s Catalogue of unselfish achievement.

Rome sells its titles of sainthood as it does its red hats of cardinalitial power; but the world, an emancipated and disenthralled humanity, places just value, and that only, on all the meretricious favors of the crafty and corrupt Vatican court.

The head of the papal machine is the pope of Rome but its controlling, dominant power is the Curia, or College of Cardinals. Principal agents and beneficiaries of the System, in outside countries, are archbishops and bishops. They may, like Turkish tax collectors, gather in all they can from the superstitious hopes and fears of the servile or ignorant multitude, keeping for themselves a most abundant share, provided they yield to Italian grafter at the Vatican his stipulated “pound of flesh.”

Surpassing, perhaps, all other Vaticanist tax collectors are bishops in English-speaking countries, in Ireland especially, and in the United States, in constant demands upon their people for contributions to papal exchequer and to private coffers of extortionate prelates in Rome, whose good offices these bishops so often need to pull them out of trouble accruing from illicit relations with nuns and other women, and also from too close an acquaintance with genial old Bacchus.

Lesser agents and beneficiaries are leading priests and monks, who preach “Peter’s Pence,” and other thievish schemes of the machine, to complacent people. Observe, reader, that nine and ninety out of every hundred Roman priests come from poor and unlettered, thriftless, and even worthless families. The clerical training and education of these sons of poverty and social debasement—some of them bastards—is paid for by the Church, from the Seminary Fund maintained by yearly contributions extracted largely from the poor.

Most devoted agents for extortion and rapine do beggars make for plutocratic principal. The beggar born thrills with pleasure at contact with gilded and purpled lord and master. To serve as menial to such a lord and master is, for pauperbred priest, glory indeed.

Noblesse oblige, the French put it—” Blood will tell,” the English form of it—applies not, except negatively, to these servile agents of Vatican vampire. Young men of birth and blood, of good family surroundings and training, do not enter the priesthood. When, rarely indeed, one such does become a priest, he soon regrets his mistake, and quits, or the machine gets rid of him; witness the unfortunate Father Tom Sherman, and numbers of others. Cardinal Howard, himself of English royal blood and lineage, died a few years ago in Rome, a helpless, hopeless madman, his heart broken by the wretchedness and infamy of the System. Too much was papalistic mendacity for his noble British blood !

The machine sends special envoys to foreign countries to interfere with the local political and also the international affairs of these nations. These envoys are, in some places, called Nuncios ; in others, Apostolic Delegates. Whatever their appellation, they represent everywhere a force of mischief, of conspiracy, and of deterioration. Catching Lorenzelli, the last papal Nuncio in Paris, with documentary proof of guilt, striving to destroy the French republic, France banished the intermeddler, and broke off forever diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

“My Kingdom,” said Christ, “is not of this world.’ ‘ But think and assert otherwise does the ” Vicar of Christ,” so called, in the Vatican palace. “All kingdoms, and the gold and gems thereof, with the crowns or presidential seats thereof, also, belong to me,” is blunt and brutal avowal of present-day papal statesmanship. Every man forming part of this world-wide machine— from the pope himself down to humblest parish priest—is grafter and political marplot a teacher, preacher, and practicer of anarchy — ready, with priest Phelan of St. Louis, to shout, “To hell with my country’s flag and government, when that flag and government come in conflict with pope and papacy.”

General W. T. Sherman called war “hell,” and he was right; let some other fearless American call the papal machine hell’s most powerful and most blood-thirsty agent on earth, and I will feel that that American has used the American language righteously and to enduring good purpose.

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