Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-11-28

/ IOu Ine htHdCe, IHe feTll, Ine
Yellow Jacket and other papers of
like character an alleged Knights of
Columbus oath is reprinted, as being
taken from the Congressional Rec
ord, Sixty-second Congress, third
session, February Is, 1913. There
are none so blind as those that will
not see, and in spite of the fact
that in season and out of season the
fake oath of the Knights of Colum-
bus has been disproved, both in
courts of justice throughout the
| country and on innumerable public
and private occasions, in the Catholic
press and in public lectures, there
are still people who cling to the
threadbare calumny and actually
give It credence. That the fake oath
bears as much relation to the real
oath Of the Knights of Columbus as
daylight to darkness, virtue to vice,
and heaven to hell, will be evident to
those who take the trouble to read
both, which are here given, together
with the vigorous defense of the
highest Masons in California:
81, ,.........., now in the pres
ence of Almighty God, the Blessed
Virgin Mary, the Blessed st. John
the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, st.
Peter and st. Paul, and all the
saints, sacred host of heaven, and
to you, my ghostly father, the
Superior General of the Society of
Jesus, founded by st. Ignatius
Loyola, in the pontification Of Paul
the III, and continued to the pres
ent, do, by the womb Of the Virgin,
the matrix of God, and the rod of
Jesus Christ, declare and swear that
His Holiness the Pope is Christ's
Vice Gerent and is the true and only
head of the Catholic or Universal
church throughout the earth; and
that by virtue of the keys of binding
and loosing given His Holiness by
my Saviour Jesus Christ he hath
power to depose heretical Kings,
Princes, States, Commonwealths and
Governments that they may be
safely destroyed. Therefore to the
utmost OF my power / will defend
this doctrine and His Holiness
right and custom against all usurp-
ers of the heretical or Protestant
authority whatever, especially the
Lutu6Tdu CuuTCu vi 0tIluduys
Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Nor
way, and the now pretended author
ity and Church of England and
Scotland, and the branches Of the
same now established in ireland
and on the continent of America and
elsewhere, and all adherents in re-
gard that they may be usurped and
heretical, opposing the sacred
Mother Church of Rome.
"I now denounce and disown
any allegiance as due to any hereti-
cal King, Prince or State named
Protestant or Liberals, or obedience
to any of their laws, magistrates or
officers.
'T do further declare that I will
help, assist and advise all or any of
His Holiness agents, in any place
where should be, in Switzerland,
Germany, Holland, Ireland or Amer
lea, or in any other kingdom or
territory shall come to. and do
my utmost to extirpate the heretical
Protestant or Masonic doctrines,
and to destroy all their pretended
powers, legal or otherwise.
81 do further promise and de-
clare that, Notwithstanding, am
dispensed with to assume any re-
ligion heretical for the propagation
of the Mother Church's interest; to
keep secret and private all her
agents counsels from time to time,
as they entrust me, and not divulge,
directly or indirectly by word, writ
ing or circumstances whatever, but
to execute all that should be pro-
posed, given in charge, or discov-
cred unto me, by any ghostly father
or any of this sacred order.
81 do further promise and declare
that I will have no opinion or will
tion whatsoever, even as a corpse or
cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but
will unhesitatingly obey each and
every command that / may receive
from my superiors in the militia OF
the Pope and of Jesus Christ.
"That will go to any part OF the
world whithersoever I may be sent,
to the frozen regions of the North,
to the burning sands of the desert
of Africa or the jungles of India, to
the centers of civilization of Europe
or to the wild haunts of barbarous
savages OF America without muir
muring or repining, and Will be sub
missive in all things whatsoever is
communicated to me.
'T do further promise and de-
clare that I viii when opportunity
presents make and wage relentless
war. secretly and openly, against all
heretics. Protestants and Masons. as
I am directed to do, TO extirpate
them from the face of the whole
earth; and that will spare neither
age, sex or condition. and that I will
burn, hang. waste, boil. flay,
strangle and bury alive these In
famous heretics; rip up the
stomachs and wombs of the women,
and crush their infants heads
against the walls in order to an
initiate their execrable race. That
when the same can not be done
openly viii secretly use the poison
GUS cup. the strangulation cord. the
steel OF the poinard. or the leaden
bullet, regardless of the honor, rank,
dignity or authority OF the persons,
whatsoever be their condition in
life. either public OF private. as I at
any time may be directed to do by
any agent Of the Pope. or Superior
OF the Brotherhood OF the Holy
Father Of the Society of Jesus.