rstood that he had to do that; for the
Pope, in his "Motu Proprio" decree, has forbidden Catholics to bring a
priest into court for any civil crime whatsoever; he has forbidden
Catholic policemen to arrest, Catholic judges to try, and Catholic
law-makers to make laws affecting any priest of the Church of Rome.
And of course we know, upon the authority of a cardinal, that the Pope
is "the sole, last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong." He has
held that position for a thousand years and more; and wherever you
consult the police records throughout the thousand years, you find the
same entries concerning Catholic ecclesiastics. I turn to Riley's
"Illustrations of London Life from Original Documents," and I find in
the year 1385 a certain chaplain, whose name is considerately
suppressed, had a breviary stolen from him by a loose woman, because
he has not given her any money, either on that night or the one
previous. In 1320 John de Sloghtre, a priest, is put in the tower "for
being found wandering about the city against the peace", and Richard
Heyring, a priest, is indicted in the ward of Farringdon and in the
ward of Crepelgate "as being a bruiser and nightwalker." That this has
been going on for six hundred years is due, not to any special
corruption of the Catholic heart, but to the practice of clerical
celibacy, which is contrary to nature, a transgression of fundamental
instinct. It should be noted that the purpose of this transgression,
which pretends to be spiritual, is really economic; it was the means
whereby the church machine built up its power through the Middle Ages.
The priests had children then, as they have them today; but these
children not being recognized, the church machine remained the sole
heir of the property of its clergy.

#The Church Militant#

Knowing what we know today, we marvel that it was possible for Germany
to prepare through so many years for her assault on civilization, and
for England to have slept through it all. In exactly the same way, the
historian of a generation from now will marvel that America should
have slept, while the New Inquisition was planning to strangle her.
For we are told with the utmost explicitness precisely what is to be
done. We are to see wiped out these gains of civilization for which
our race has bled and agonized for many centuries; the very gains are
to serve as the means of their own destruction! Have we not heard Pope
Leo tell his faithful how to take