First, as to the property owned by Mary Ann's Papa:

The editor knows, or should know, that the bishop takes the title to the property to himself, as a corporation sole. That is, a corporation with only one member. And the And the bishop holds for the Papa. The Church, not the bishops, are the real owners, and the Pope, as head of the church and vice-gerent of Christ is the ultimate proprietor.

Doesn't the Roman Catholic priesthood claim that the Pope can dispose of all kingdoms, dukedoms, marquisates, &c? Did not a Pope sell Ireland to the Norman robbers? Did not a Pope give away the New World to Spain and Portugal?

Yet, here we have a Roman Catholic editor denying that his Papa can dispose of Roman Catholic church property.

that such a power was meant to be transmitted to priestly Chinamen, Hundus, Japs, Iggorotos, and the negro priests of the United States.

The idea of those negro priests exercising the functions of God Almighty, equal to Christ in the Confessional, and praying people out of Purgatory! It is almost enough to make one lose faith in human reason. However, it is not surprising that a sect which believes that a human being can become infallible, by intrigueing or bribing his way to the papal throne, should likewise believe that a priest can make a God out of a nigger.

Thirdly, as to the Penny Catechism, which teaches that there is only one God:

If that is their doctrine, why don't they teach it to the priests? If the six-year-old Catholic child is taught that no one can be God's equal, they forget the lesson when they become priests. On several occasions, recently, Roman prelates, of high rank, have preached upon this very subject; and in each instance they claimed that the priests, while officiating in the confessional, forgiving sins, were equals to Christ. That was why I said that the orthodox Catholic faith is, a Triune God, with as many equals as there are priests including, of course, the

Fourthly, as to Purgatory:

The Marian very correctly traced the doctrine to the Jews. He should have been more candid, and admitted that the Jews borrowed the doctrine from the ancient Pagans. In fact, Moses, Ezra, Joseph, &c., transplanted many Oriental ideas from the Euphrates and the Nile, to the Jordan. Scholars so inclined,

could easily astonish The Marian very much, indeed, on that theme. Fifthly, the Confessional:

A mere quotation from Johr. Chrysostom does not prove that the confessional, proper, was then in operation. Between a confession and a confessional, there is a world of difference. All Christians believe in confession of sins; only the Roman Catholics and some High Church Episcopalians believe in the confessional.

The next two paragraphs of the Marain article, following that on Purgatory, are not mine. I have never made any such statements.

As to the Popes being Italians, I meant, of course, in modern times. In earlier ages, one priest of English extraction became a pope; and he it was who sold Catholic Ireland to the Norman marauders. A Spaniard or so was Pontiff, away back yonder. If The Marian wished to impart truth to its readers, it should have told them how many popes there have been; and how many were not Italian.

In some future number, will The Marian explain why a majority of the cardinals are now, and always have been, Italians?

In the whole world, there are 47 living Cardinals; of these, the little Peninsula called Italy has 28. There are fewer Catholics in that small country than there are in Ireland, yet Ireland has only one Cardinal. They claim 14,000,000 Catholics in these United States, but only one American wears the red hat. The fact that 28 Italians are in the college, and that the Pope is always an Italian, shows clearly enough where the power and control are.

"Justifiable to kill Protestants."

The Marian denies that the Roman Church holds that doctrine.

Why, then, did the Pope and all his sacred retinue rejoice so exultantly when they heard of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew? Why was a solemn Te Deum sung? Why did Pope and Cardinals parade the streets of Rome? Why did the Holy Father have a medal struck to commemorate the glorious event?

Heavens above! That any sane man, at this late day, should deny that the priests teach that it is justifiable to kill heretics!

Why were the Huguenots massacred in France? Why were the Dutch Protestants slain by tens of thousands? Why was the Inquisition set up, to torture Protestants to death? Why the Albigensian crusade? Why the slaughter of the Waldenses-a slaughter which went on and on, until Cromwell told Louis XIV that it must stop?

Right now, the Roman church holds that it is a righteous thing to kill heretics-and all Baptists and Protestants are, in Roman eyes, heretics.

"The worship of images." It is absurd to compare the doffing of hats to Gen. Lee's statue, with the prostrations before Catholic images, the kissing of their feet, the votive offerings and the prayers offered to them. See what Erasmus said on the subject, 400 years ago; and read again the September number of this magazine.

Can The Marian explain why "The Mission Book" of the Roman church mangles church mangles the second commandment and omits the prohibition of image worship?

"These statues," &c.

See what Erasmus, the renowned

Catholic scholar, says on this subject, as quoted in the chapter on the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Erasmus had, 400 years ago, employed much the same language used by me, and controverted by The Marian.

"Baptismal fonts." The Marian does not even try to disprove my assertion, that they were borrowed from the Persians.

"Signing the child's head with the cross. I said it was a custom of Persian religion. The Marian does not deny this. It lamely quotes Tertullian, who admits that there is no Scripture for it. Tertullian was ignorant of the fact that the custom was of heathen origin.

The Marain claims that I did not tell the truth as to how "Holy Water" is made.

In Kirwan's "Letters to Chief Justice Taney," he describes how he himself saw "Holy Water" made in Rome, Italy. I quoted from memory, but now give his own words:

"The bishop read a little-then all sang, and chanted. Thrice, at intervals, the bishop, with his hand, made the sign of the cross in the water, making quite a ruffle on the surface as he drew his hand through it; thrice, at intervals, he breathed

The Marian declares that it came from what God said to Adam. How then, did the phrase "ashes to ashes" originate?

The Egyptians used the formula "ashes to ashes and dust to dust." God did not say anything to Adam about ashes. He said, "dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return."

"The use of holy water is pagan." Does The Marian disprove my assertion? Not at all. The best it can do is to quote the Apostolic Constitutions, of the 4th century ofter Christ, in which the heathen practice is attributed to a "precept" of Matthew. Where is the "precept?" Who saw it, and when? What became of it? Why was it not included in the Gospel of Matthew?

All the reason and common sense have to be educated out of man before he can pin his faith to such absurdities as The Marian dotes on.

each time to receive the Holy Ghost. Then, from a vessel like a coffeepot, he poured oil into it in the form of a cross; and from another similar vessel, at a brief interval, he poured some other liquid into the tub, again in the figure of a cross. At another interval he took both vessels by the handles in his right hand, and bringing their spouts near together, he poured into the tub a little stream in the form of a cross, formed by the liquids from both vessels uniting. A powder, something like fine salt, was also cast into it. Then, after mixing all up together, he washed his hands in the compound, which were most reverently wiped by his attendants. Before putting them in the water, his hands were divested of their gloves and rings, and were most devoutly kissed; as was his crook when taken by his attendants. Thus common water was changed into holy water by one of the most silly and blasphemous ceremonies it was ever my lot to witness."

APPENDIX.

THE OATH WHICH EVERY PRIEST MUST

TAKE.

If the oath that Catholic priests must take was taken up by any secret order in America its members would be arrested for treason, but still the American people sit idly by and allow their worst enemies to come right among them and build institutions that are a shame to civilization, and permit these institutions to be run by an oathbound set of men who both secretly and openly swear against our Free American institutions, and brand our public

schools as "Nurseries of Hell." If every pure American will read and re-read the following oath that each Catholic priest must take, then they will have some idea of their crime when they cast a vote for a Catholic to fill any office within the gift of the American people:

THE JESUITICAL OATH.

I, now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy apostles, St. Peter and Paul, and all the saints, sacred hosts of heaven, and to You my Ghostly Father, the superior general of the society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatus Loyola, in the pontification of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do, by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that His Holiress, the Pope, is Christ's vicegerent, 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 to his holiness by my Saviour, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and they may be safely destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power, I will defend this doctrine and his holiness' right and custom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatsoever, especially the Lutheran Church of Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the now pretended authority and churches of England and Scotland, and the branches of the same now established in Ireland, and on the continent of America and elsewhere, and all adherrents in regard that they be usurped and heretical opposing the sacred moth

er church of Rome.

I do now denounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state, named protestant or liberals, or obedience to any of their laws, magistrates or officers.

1 do further declare that the doctrine of the churches of England and Scotland of the Calvinists, Huguenots and others of the name of Protestants or Liberals, to be damnable, and they themselves to be damned who will not forsake the same.

I do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of his holiness' agents, in any place where I shall be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland or America, or in any other kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant or liberal doctrines, and

I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the mother church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' councils from time to time, as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstances whatever, but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you my Ghostly Father, of this sacred convent.

I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the pope and of Jesus Christ. That I 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 to the jungles of India, to the centers of civilization of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America, with out murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me.

I do furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, strangle, and bury alive these infamous her

wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same can not be done openly, I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poinard, or the leaden bullet, regardlesss of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the person or persons, whatever their position or sons, whatever may be their conditions of life, either public or in private, as I at any time may be directed to do so, by any agent of the Pope, or superior of the brotherhood of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus.

In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate my life, my soul, and all corporeal powers, and with the dagger which I now receive I will subscribe my name, written in my blood, in testimony thereof; and should I prove false or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the militia of the Pope cut off my hands and feet and my throat from ear to ear, my belly opened and sulphur burned therein with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth and my soul to be tortured by demons in an eternal hell forever.

All of which I,, do swear by the Blessed Trinity and Blessed Sacrament which I am now to receive, to perform, and on my part to keep this, my oath.

In testimony hereof, I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the eucharist, and witness the same further, with my name written with the point of this dagger, dipped in my own blood, and seal in the face of this holy sacrament.