Reverend no. 16'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. 16.—An Equestrian Hero.

   He has been a drunkard for a third of a century. Because of repeated scandals he has been removed from one parish to another, as a mild discipline. About five years ago he received a severe optical injury in a drunken spree. He was taken to a Catholic hospital for treatment, and from there the report was sent out by the good nuns that the reverend sufferer was a Christian hero—that he had been kicked by a horse while in the discharge of a pastoral duty! Before his removal to the hospital an hotel officer made an inventory, as was the rule in such cases, of all the effects upon his person, he being unconscious, and among the valuables were found some rubber goods for lewd purposes. His unministerial conduct was so gross that complaints were made to his Archbishop, but nothing came of them. He still remains in good standing with his archdiocesan authorities.

   I saw him at noon, in January, 1904, on the public street, in zero weather, with his shoes unlaced, without collar and tie, shirt unbuttoned, and minus an overcoat, rushing into a saloon.

   He is but the representative of a large class of parochial school principals and assistant principals who are abject slaves of Bacchus and Venus.

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], p. 430.

Online Source: archive.org/details/romanismmenaceto00crowiala

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