The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-07

after they have obtained all their conf
dences in the confessional, and make
women who confess to them victims Of
their own lust. Priests may give con-
fession and absolution to their own ac-
complies in crime, and they frequently
do tell some of their parishioners to
do some dark deed and then promise
them absolution after the deed is done,
There can be nothing so conducive to
crime as this. Dublin In Catholic Ire
land is one of the most inequitous cities
of its size in the world. In the baptism
of infants the priest blows three times
In the child's face and then tells the
devil to depart as 1t is thought that
the devil enters the child as soon as it
begins to take on the appearance of life.
The priest then vets his fingers with
spittle and touches the infants ears and
rostrils, saying a ritual for each. This
is probably the reason that there are so
many Catholics fond of rum as they
get the smell of it in the priests spittle
when they are baptised, (Applause)
Other alleged horrors of the confess
sional were told Of and alleged immor-
talities frequently practced in the Ro-
man Catholic church were spoken of to
the audience of gentlemen. This con-
cludes the series of lectures and the au-
dience showed its appreciation of the
course by hearty applause of the speak
er at the close of last evenings lecture.
A large and culvated audience of la
dies nearly filled Warner hall yesterday
afternoon to listen to the lecture given
to ladies only by Mrs. Slattery, an
ex-nun. The subject of the lecture was
Secret of Nuns and the Confessional
Exposed" The confessional, remarked
the speaker, consists of two theologies,
the moral and the dogmatic. The
questions are presented in Latin, which
are translated into English by the
priests and are often vile and objec-
tionable, so much so that that often
the priests dislike to ask them, but are
commanded by the Roman church and
cannot refuse. A young couple about
to be married must go to confession
the morning before marriage. The
young man goes first, and then the
young lady, Any mother would be
highly incensed at questions asked
her daughter. A lady asked if confess
sion was not good for the low classes.
The reply was that Romanism creates
that class. There are 100000 Roman
Catholics and 54,000000 Protestants in
the United States and rs per cent. of
the immoral women were Roman Cath
oics. Mrs. Slattery gave very inter-
esting talk on convent life. She was
born in Ireland of Roman Catholic par
ents, who died when she was twelve
years old. AT sixteen she entered a
convent in County Glare. Ireland, of the
order Of Pom Glare. She remained in
the convent three years and then be-
ing thoroughly disgusted and sick of
the falseness and wickedness she wit
messed she, by the aid of a cousin, left.
She entered the convent to escape the
world and the devil, but she found the
devil roared louder in the convent than
outside. Mrs. SIattery came to America
in 1886 and was converted under the
preaching of Henry Ward Beecher and
has travelled all over the country lee
turing. She is of very attractive
personality and held the earnest at
tention Of her audience for nearly two
hours.