Reverend no. 11's story (Crowley, Romanism a menace to the nation, 50th thousand,1912)

Text: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3

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Rev. No. 11.—A Hatband Lover.

   He is now an assistant pastor. About six years ago he fell in love with a young nun, who was beautiful and accomplished. She was the music teacher at a female academy. They carried on an amorous correspondence. Appointments were made and kept. Sometimes they met at the house of his mother; and at other times elsewhere. Ingenious methods were practiced to arrange these assignations. He visited the convent to say Mass and to give Benediction and spiritual instruction to the sisters and children; and he hung his hat in a certain place, and then the musical nun would quietly slip out of the chapel during the devotions and go to his hat and find under the inside band a loving missive. She would then go to her cell and read her love letter, and pen one to her clerical lover in which she would designate a time and place for their meeting, and then put it under his hatband.

   On one occasion a Bishop accompanied him to the female academy. Their hats were alike. When the Bishop put on his hat he discovered that it was too small, and on investigating he found a letter under the hatband. He was kind enough to give the letter to Rev. No. 11 instead of attempting to keep the appointment himself. The nuns knew of this intimacy, and there was a good deal of tittle-tattle which came to the ears of Rev. No. 11, who threatened the Mother Superioress with all kinds of revelations if she did not silence the gossip. He said to the good Mother: "How can I help it if one of your nuns falls in love with me?" A conscientious nun wrote to Cardinal Martinelli, then Apostolic Delegate, at Washington, D. C., and revealed the corrupt condition of things. The pastor of the parish was ordered to make an immediate and searching investigation. He made a judicious inquiry, and reported to Cardinal Martinelli that the priest had fallen from grace.

   At this opportune time a priest was needed to act as assistant pastor and spiritual director of the Young Ladies' Sodality in the Cathedral parish, and Rev. No. 11, regardless of his bad record, was installed. The charms that smote the nun have had a similar effect upon a number of the young ladies of the sodality, and a great deal of scandal has been the result.

   He is the spiritual director of about a thousand sodality young ladies, and he is assistant principal of a parochial school which has enrolled about thirteen hundred pupils.

Crowley, Jeremiah J., Romanism a menace to the nation (a new and original work) together with my former book "The parochial school, a curse to the church, a menace to the nation" (two books in one): a searchlight on the papal system startling charges against individuals in the hierarchy made and filed by the author and a score of prominent priests—with photographic proofs and illustrations, 50th thousand, Aurora, Missouri: The Menace Publishing Co. [, c1912], pp. 424-425.

Online Source: archive.org/details/romanismmenaceto00crowiala

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