Reverend no. 24'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. 24.—An Admirer of "Little Egypt."

   After his ordination he served as an assistant pastor, and he was known about town as a sport, a gambler and a roué. One of his pastimes was telling smutty stories founded upon things which he had learned in the confessional. He and other priests caroused. Moonlight nights were used for hay-rack parties by these convivial priests, whose companions were abandoned women. He was never known to miss a picnic day or night. There was no exhibition of beastliness in any noted house of depravity, white or black or yellow, which did not number him among its most delighted patrons. "Little Egypt" was one of his prime favorites. Her nude dancing never failed to fascinate him. His conduct was so unpriestly that he finally was written up in the daily press. Within two weeks thereafter he was grievously punished by being promoted to the cure of souls in his present parish! Repeatedly he has accompanied his Bishop to assist in the confirmation of the children of the faithful Catholic laity!!!

   Being short of funds he mortgaged his church for a thousand dollars; and then he invited his Bishop to confirm the children of his parish. After the Confirmation he gave a banquet in honor of the Bishop, and congenial priests and a number of young lady friends attended it. The gathering broke up after the departure of the Bishop in a drunken fight over the girls. Two parties were formed, and one ejected the other. The vanquished party retired and awakened a saloon-keeper, one of the pastor's leading parishioners, and insisted upon being furnished with a stock of liquor. This was given to them, and with it they went to a hotel. They then proceeded to drown the recollection of their recent defeat, and in the effort made such a rumpus that the quiet of the town was disturbed, and the city marshal threatened to put them all under arrest if they did not desist. While debating the matter the imbibed liquor came to the relief of the officer of the law, the offenders subsiding into a drunken sleep.

   Rev. No. 24 makes it a Christian virtue to avoid the payment of bills. Indeed, he is a bankrupt financially and morally.

   Because of his artistic singing, he is in great demand as celebrant of Requiem High Masses, and as chanter of the "Veni Creator Spiritus" at spiritual retreats, synods, etc., this hymn being a prayer for the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the gathering. He is an accomplished singer of "coon" and "levee" songs, and is unequalled as a cake walker.

   As soon as his parish has its parochial school erected, he, by the law of the Church, will be its principal, and the parishioners can have none other.

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. 443-444.

Online Source: archive.org/details/romanismmenaceto00crowiala

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