The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-06-27
What Sort OF Theology is Taught
i'm ROEmaniSt Sen1inarieS

I'm ROmaniSt Summaries
I T is impossible for me to believe that the
average Roman Catholic knows the nature
of the questions which priests ask girls and
married women in the Confessional.
/ cannot believe that Americans would
allow their wives, daughters and sisters to
go to confession, if the nature of these ques-
tons were known.
For publishing them In Latin, / was arr
rested at the instance of the priests.
If it be indecent to publish those foul ques-
those questions into living tongue, and to
pour them into the ears Of young women
maids, wives and widows?
From dealer in second hand books [ have
secured a copy Of the textbook used in
Romish Theological Seminaries. It is called
the "Moral Theology Of Peter Dens." Tt is
one of the vilest most execrable books that
ever was printed.
To put such book into the hands of any
young man, should be made crime
To teach its damnable doctrines to young
men is an unspeakabe infamy.
In commenting on his translation Of this
Latin book into English, Prof. Joseph F.
Berg says:
There are passages in Peter Dens' Treatise on
Penance, &C.. which have been obliged from a
regard to decency to pass by would not out
rage the feelings of my readers by stripping them
of their Latin disguise, and their deformity is
such that even this covering would be insufficient
to hide it from an English reader. Paul tells US
that it is a shame to speak of certain things that
were done among the Gentiles, but it is actually
a shame even to think Of some of the topics which
are discussed with the most obscene discrimina-
ton by Roman theologians, and with which their
minds must be familiar before ever they can hear
confessions. Every form of imaginable and I'm
imaginable bestiality is investigated with the
closest scrutiny, and questions are propounded.
which to the language of living member of
the ROmish church. 'are enough to make the hair
of ones head stand up" There is nothing con-
nected with the matrimonial state, nothing too
sacred or secret in the virtuous intercourse of
those whom God has joined which is not made
subject of impudent inquiry. No matter whether
the penitent be male or female, the priest may
PROFOUND what interrogatortes he chooses. We
cannot say pity the man, who will suffer his
wife and daughters to thus be tortured and
trOdden down by Popsh priest; if it ever can
be lawful to turn with loathing from fellow
creature, might be pardoned for expression
of disgust at the sight of such object; but
when remember the force Of education, and
the deadly influence OF P0pish superstition which
is the rankest form that fanaticism b as ever as
sumed; the power of the strong delusons that
bind the soul of man with a chain Of adamant,
and fetter every noble principle, we bless God
that we are not educated in the nurture and adj
monition of the Church of Rome, and we pray
for deluded brethren, Father, forgive them
they know what they do
Satan could not possibly have devised a
scheme, which completely subverts the
principles and the design of the gospel than this
fatal system. The poor Papist is taught to re-
gard his prayers (Such as they are), the reading
Of the Scriptures, &c. as punishments: when he
wishes to make satisfaction for his sins he goes
the rosary the litany of the Blessed
Virgin. If he has been drunk six times, in as
many days. he gets absoluton, and is ready to
run up a with the landlord and his
Maker, soon with due preparation he has
read the seven penitential psalms on his Bonded
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