The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-03-02
A JESUIT TEXT BOOK
AND WHAT IT TEACHES
Beginning Series Of fArtlcles Which
Will Unmask This Official
Roman School Book
By an EMINENT MASON


ers of the Christian Schools"
1t was written by "a seminary
professor" and the authorized
English version" is published by
John Joseph McVey, of Phila'
delphia, the copy now before me be-
ing one of the 21st edition from the
press in 1915.
A preface dated 1902 states that
it is can abridgment Of the three
volumes, Dogma, Moral and Wor-
ship" and is intended as manual
mot only in the novitiates and
Scholastics Of teaching congrega-
tions, but also in the classes of
high school, academies and COL
leges."
The "Nihil Obstat" Of Rome La
fort s. T. L., Censor Librorum
and the Imprimatur of Patritius
Joaunes, Archiepiscopus Philadel-
phiensis of August 1909 appear.
Therefore this work, almost impos-
sible for a Protestant or non-Cath-
olic to procure if he is known to be
such, is undoubtedly official, and
we have it from their own mouths
that it is wholly religious"
In this manual is direct proof of
things denied by Romna Catholic
priests and laymen when confronted
with charges, that their church is a
political organization antagonistic
to the laws of this republic, and
very spirit of the American consti-
t,.tion.
Because these teachings are called
religious" the priests gloss the
matter over by informing their
credulous parishioners, that they
should regard such papers as The
MENACE with conteLpt and consid-
er their warnings as lies directed
against religion.
At page 493 it is declared that
the church can establish impedi
ments to marriage, both to render
it null and to make it unlawful
while the state can only nullify
marriages ''between infdels" having
no power over "the faithful"
The state has only power over
the civil effects of marriage (p.494)
"but has no right either to declare
valid a marriage that is null in the
eyes of the church, or to pronounce
null a marriage that is really
valid"
In other words the American di.
vorce laws cannot be recognized by
the church. A Protestant or Jew
divorced from a Catholic by oul
law and married again is held by
the church as living in 'filthy con.
cubinage" and his or her children
by the second marriage are called
bastards.
And by teaching her priests and
through them the laity, that the
state laws cannot make valid q mar.
riage that the church says is nc
marriage, Rome defes Americs
again, for on page 494 one of tht
principal impediments to Lawful
: marriage is declared to be "differ
ence Of religion"
This is "diriment impediment'
and Up. 493) a dirinent impedi
ment is one which renders the mar
riage NULL.
There is no need for interpreta
ton here. 1t is plain that Protes
tants cannot be married to Catholic
if the church says not. A woman
so married is a prostitute. A mar
simply has q mistress.
The children are bastards. Tn,
desertion Of wife or husband by tn,
Roman Catholic partner to the mar
riage is no crime. So we begin Il
understand the folly of believing
the protestations, excuses and de
mails Of this infamous doctrine
We have it officially from tn,
mouths Of Rome's chosen educators
the Jesuits.
The Ne Temere Decree went int
effect in America Easter 1908. B,
its provisions Up. 1861 alb mar
riages must be contracted before
) bishop or priest in the presence o
two witnesses, and with the con
sent of both parties. Otherwise j
is null and void.
On page 49S it is said that "wha
the faithful need to know about tn
present marriage legislation" i
that; "(1) no marriage is vGlid un
less it is performed by q priest dul.