The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-03-23

u no elAAu o. AAAANa NNA NAANNH HAAN
has Catholicism degraded the noeie
peFtonality % woman.
Tho leading Catholic eccicsiastics
uho took part In the councils of that
church give vent 20 a fcrocioua and
shameful bitterness aEainst woman.
Not one 81 them seems 90 remember
hia mother or his sister. IN those
councils there Nerc dora Of priests
Who discussed whether woman be-
longcd 90 the human race OF not: and
they hovled and yelled around the
question whether woman had a soul
.or not Even the famous bishop Boz
suct repeats that woman IL derived
from a supcrfluoun bone. that Ehc
might BE- subject 20 man. Of whom she
is a species OF diminutive And even
Pope Leo XIII. In mis- cncyclical Of
iS1S accepts and confirms the dcclh.
rationa of the fathers OF the church
saying. that the husband Ia lord % the
woman even as Jesus Christ IL lord
Of tho church.
And after all this the priest has the
face TO blab about woman's rights
and tho regeneration OF woman. BAH
hypoerites.
n you read tho lives Of the saints
you viii ind that they were sanCtiacd
By reason OF their ferocious aad idi.
otio hatred towards woman. even
though she happened TO be their own
mother
And the lives OF the female saints.
whom tho Catholic church worships.
are another evidence OF the low and
miserable concept In which woman
was held. There arc there saints who
are either hysterical maniaos or un.
fortunates that could not be entrusted
beyond medical care and supervision.
A vastly interesting study would
be TO find out whether the pathologi.
cal constitution OF those saints. or
the feecing them OF their worldly
goods turned cut TO the most adyan.
tage 10 the church.
/ Here are some OF what a Catholic
priest calls christian virtues: Sebas.
tian Nalpre was declared blessed be-
cause when speaking q a woman he
always kept his eyes shut And l.u.
doyicus. Bishop OF Toulon. was made
a saint because he would not look
even az the face OF his sister: and one
time when she asked him to look at
her he replied that her request was
madness. Moreover. Flnadis Gintlgna.
no was rewarded with sanctifcation
because when no went out doors he
madD covenant with his eyes 90
look downwards TO tho ground. and
never to look beyond the place where
he was about TO Get his foot.
With this manner OF walking We
think, without fear OF thinking the
impossible. that saint Fina must have
banged his head against the wall 3ret.
~ frequently.
Sister Mary Cruclfx Satelllco never
looked upon any part OF her naked
body; neither arm. nor leg, nor foot.
When she got up in the morning she
used to put her stockings on under.
meath the bedclothes, so that she
might get out OF bed covered up all
over. For which reason Il was con.
cluded that sister Satelllco became
naturally blessed. A miracle OF spirit.
ual purity was generally synonymous
with being prodigy OF bodily filth.
These hysterical patients. these un
happy and abnormal creatures. these
women who gave up the world for the
convent, these mothers who fed from
their families. cursing them. and took
refuge in cells, these daughters who
J Iexiled themselves from their homes
ldespising parents, brothers, sisters
. all this innumerable cohort OF unfor
tunates, OF lunatics. OF idiotio dream
ers, are now held up as models oi
holy living by the Catholic church
and presented as examples 20 be imi
tated by the young women and girls
who swarm around the confessional.
. II the postal laws would not take
US to task for publishing the many
strange things that bubble over in the
, sacred books Of the Catholic church
we would expose to the light curious
and lugubrious cases OF sexual pathol
ogy. held up by the priests TO the ig
norant and ingenious mass Of super
, stitious women and girls as most rare
examples OF the highest Christian vir
tue
A slave may be beaten by her master
or mistress, and the Catholic church
says that a husband may beat his
I wife. being in this different from tn,
common law which condemns tn,
brutal husband The church absolvei
. him and councils that the club has tn,
rare virtue Of reforming bad wives
: In fact, p. Antoine. in his moral the
, ology, Chap. III, asserts that the hus
band can beat his wife. use a sticl
I on her, because she is bound to give
honor and obedience TO him. Th,
, husband, he says. owes the wife cart
: and support and reasonable correction
because the man is the head OF tn,
; woman. But the husband can onll
? beat the wife for some grave faul
when her behavior calls for Il. be
4 cause beating ones wife gives gooC
: results only when resorted to rarel!
and moderately.
, Neither maternity. that grand func
ton that renders woman sacred in th'
e eyes OF all. even in the eyes OF tn,
E most barbarous and rude. elevateI
her in the eyes Of the church. Woman
I Is but a vile instrument and you car
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