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Fifty years in the church of Rome
This is an in depth personal testimony by a former catholic priest. Very informative.
At present it can be downloaded as a free PDF but will soon disappear as free I suspect.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 . . . The Bible and the Priest of Rome
Chapter 2 . . . My First Schooldays at St. Thomas- The Monk and Celibacy
Chapter 3 . . . The Confession of Children
Chapter 4 . . . The Shepherd Whipped by His Sheep
Chapter 5 . . . The Priest, Purgatory, and the Poor Widow's Cow
Chapter 6 . . . Festivities in a Parsonage
Chapter 7 . . . Preparation for the First Communion- Initiation to Idolatry
Chapter 8 . . . The First Communion
Chapter 9 . . . Intellectual Education in the Roman Catholic College
Chapter 10 . . . Moral and Religious Instruction in the Roman Catholic Colleges
Chapter 11 . . . Protestant Children in the Convents and Nunneries of Rome
Chapter 12 . . . Rome and Education- Why does the Church of Rome hate the Common Schools of the United
States, and want to destroy them?- Why does she object to the reading of the Bible in the Schools?
Chapter 13 . . . Theology of the Church of Rome: its Anti-Christian Character
Chapter 14 . . . The Vow of Celibacy
Chapter 15 . . . The Impurities of the Theology of Rome
Chapter 16 . . . The Priests of Rome and the Holy Fathers; or, how I Swore to give up the Word of God to follow
the Word of Men
Chapter 17 . . . The Roman Catholic Priesthood, or Ancient and Modern Idolatry
Chapter 18 . . . Nine Consequences of the Dogma of Transubstantiation- The Old Paganism under a Christian
Name
Chapter 19 . . . Vicarage, and Life at St. Charles, Rivierre Boyer
Chapter 20 . . . Papineau and the Patriots in 1833- The Burning of "Le Canadien" by the Curate of St. Charles
Chapter 21 . . . Grand Dinner of the Priests- The Maniac Sister of Rev. Mr. Perras
Chapter 22 . . . I am appointed Vicar of the Curate of Charlesbourgh- The Piety, Lives and Deaths of Fathers
Bedard and Perras
Chapter 23 . . . The Cholera Morbus of 1834- Admirable Courage and Self-Denial of the Priests of Rome during
the Epidemic
Chapter 24 . . . I am named a Vicar of St. Roch, Quebec City- The Rev. Mr. Tetu- Tertullian- General Cargo-
The Seal Skins
Chapter 25 . . . Simony- Strange and Sacrilegious Traffic in the S0-called Body and Blood of Christ- Enormous
Sums of Money made by the Sale of Masses- The Society of Three Masses abolished, and the Society of One
Mass established
Chapter 26 . . . Continuation of the Trade in Masses
Chapter 27 . . . Quebec Marine Hospital- The First Time I carried the "Bon Dieu" (the wafer god) in my Vest
Pocket- The Grand Oyster Soiree at Mr. Buteau's- The Rev. L. Parent and the "Bon Dieu" at the Oyster Soiree
Chapter 28 . . . Dr. Douglas- My first Lesson on Temperance- Study of Anatomy- Working of Alcohol in the
Human Frame- The Murderess of Her Own Child- I for ever give up the use of Intoxicating Drinks
Chapter 29 . . . Conversions of Protestants to the Church of Rome- Rev. Anthony Parent, Superior of the
Seminary of Quebec; His peculiar way of finding access to the Protestants and bringing them to the Catholic
Church- How he spies the Protestants through the Confessional- I persuade Ninety-three Families to become
Catholics
Chapter 30 . . . The Murders and Thefts in Quebec from 1835 to 1836- The Night Excursion with Two Thieves-
The Restitution- The Dawn of Light
Chapter 31 . . . Chambers and his Accomplices Condemned to Death- Asked me to Prepare them for their
Terrible Fate- A Week in their Dungeon- Their Sentence of Death changed into Deportation to Botany Bay-
Their Departure of Exile- I meet one of them a Sincere Convert, very rich, in a high and honourable position in
Australia, in 1878
Chapter 32 . . . The Miracles of Rome- Attack of Typhoid Fever- Apparition of St. Anne and St. Philomene- My
Sudden Cure- The Curate of St. Anne du Nord, Mons. Ranvoize, almost a disguised Protestant
Fifty years in the church of Rome
This is an in depth personal testimony by a former catholic priest. Very informative.
At present it can be downloaded as a free PDF but will soon disappear as free I suspect.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 . . . The Bible and the Priest of Rome
Chapter 2 . . . My First Schooldays at St. Thomas- The Monk and Celibacy
Chapter 3 . . . The Confession of Children
Chapter 4 . . . The Shepherd Whipped by His Sheep
Chapter 5 . . . The Priest, Purgatory, and the Poor Widow's Cow
Chapter 6 . . . Festivities in a Parsonage
Chapter 7 . . . Preparation for the First Communion- Initiation to Idolatry
Chapter 8 . . . The First Communion
Chapter 9 . . . Intellectual Education in the Roman Catholic College
Chapter 10 . . . Moral and Religious Instruction in the Roman Catholic Colleges
Chapter 11 . . . Protestant Children in the Convents and Nunneries of Rome
Chapter 12 . . . Rome and Education- Why does the Church of Rome hate the Common Schools of the United
States, and want to destroy them?- Why does she object to the reading of the Bible in the Schools?
Chapter 13 . . . Theology of the Church of Rome: its Anti-Christian Character
Chapter 14 . . . The Vow of Celibacy
Chapter 15 . . . The Impurities of the Theology of Rome
Chapter 16 . . . The Priests of Rome and the Holy Fathers; or, how I Swore to give up the Word of God to follow
the Word of Men
Chapter 17 . . . The Roman Catholic Priesthood, or Ancient and Modern Idolatry
Chapter 18 . . . Nine Consequences of the Dogma of Transubstantiation- The Old Paganism under a Christian
Name
Chapter 19 . . . Vicarage, and Life at St. Charles, Rivierre Boyer
Chapter 20 . . . Papineau and the Patriots in 1833- The Burning of "Le Canadien" by the Curate of St. Charles
Chapter 21 . . . Grand Dinner of the Priests- The Maniac Sister of Rev. Mr. Perras
Chapter 22 . . . I am appointed Vicar of the Curate of Charlesbourgh- The Piety, Lives and Deaths of Fathers
Bedard and Perras
Chapter 23 . . . The Cholera Morbus of 1834- Admirable Courage and Self-Denial of the Priests of Rome during
the Epidemic
Chapter 24 . . . I am named a Vicar of St. Roch, Quebec City- The Rev. Mr. Tetu- Tertullian- General Cargo-
The Seal Skins
Chapter 25 . . . Simony- Strange and Sacrilegious Traffic in the S0-called Body and Blood of Christ- Enormous
Sums of Money made by the Sale of Masses- The Society of Three Masses abolished, and the Society of One
Mass established
Chapter 26 . . . Continuation of the Trade in Masses
Chapter 27 . . . Quebec Marine Hospital- The First Time I carried the "Bon Dieu" (the wafer god) in my Vest
Pocket- The Grand Oyster Soiree at Mr. Buteau's- The Rev. L. Parent and the "Bon Dieu" at the Oyster Soiree
Chapter 28 . . . Dr. Douglas- My first Lesson on Temperance- Study of Anatomy- Working of Alcohol in the
Human Frame- The Murderess of Her Own Child- I for ever give up the use of Intoxicating Drinks
Chapter 29 . . . Conversions of Protestants to the Church of Rome- Rev. Anthony Parent, Superior of the
Seminary of Quebec; His peculiar way of finding access to the Protestants and bringing them to the Catholic
Church- How he spies the Protestants through the Confessional- I persuade Ninety-three Families to become
Catholics
Chapter 30 . . . The Murders and Thefts in Quebec from 1835 to 1836- The Night Excursion with Two Thieves-
The Restitution- The Dawn of Light
Chapter 31 . . . Chambers and his Accomplices Condemned to Death- Asked me to Prepare them for their
Terrible Fate- A Week in their Dungeon- Their Sentence of Death changed into Deportation to Botany Bay-
Their Departure of Exile- I meet one of them a Sincere Convert, very rich, in a high and honourable position in
Australia, in 1878
Chapter 32 . . . The Miracles of Rome- Attack of Typhoid Fever- Apparition of St. Anne and St. Philomene- My
Sudden Cure- The Curate of St. Anne du Nord, Mons. Ranvoize, almost a disguised Protestant
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