I may say with safety, and from my own personal knowledge through the Confessional, that _there is scarcely one of them who has not been herself DEBAUCHED BY HER OWN CONFESSOR_. The reader will understand that every nun has a confessor; and here I will add, for the truth must be told at once, that _every confessor has a concubine, and there are very few of them who have not several_." Remember that this fearful charge against celibacy was made in 1856, in the edition of Hogan's work which was the 76th thousand. Therefore, the ex-priest who had brought the best letters of introduction from Europe, and who had been unanimously elected Chaplain of the New York legislature, had hurled this hideous indictment at popery and its priest 76,000 times. What answer was made to him? _None!_ They furiously abused him, but did not dare to either prosecute or reply. He had been a priest, and he knew too much. _Popery has never dared to prosecute an ex-priest, or an ex-nun, where there was any chance to lift the veil that conceals the rottenness of life inside the convents, and the monasteries._ After quoting Michelet and Courier and Llorente on the inevitable lasciviousness and depravity necessarily resulting from denying the priests the right to marry, William Hogan proceeds-- "Shall the cowl shelter the adulterous monk in this land of freedom? Are the sons of freemen to countenance, nay, asked to build impassible walls around a licentious, lecherous, profligate horde of foreign priests and monks, who choose to come among us, and erect a little _fortification_, which they call nunneries for their protection? "Shall they own, by law and charter, places where _to bury_, hidden from the public eye, _the victim of their lust, AND THE MURDERED OFFSPRING OF THEIR CONCUPISCENCE_?" Speaking of Albany, New York, Rev. Hogan, on page 268, of "Nunneries," says-- "As soon as I got settled in Albany, I had of course to attend to the duty of Auricular Confession; and in less than two months found that those three priests, during the time they were there, were the fathers of between 60 and 100 children, besides having debauched many who had left the place previous to their confinement. Many of these children were by married women, whose husbands and brothers, and relatives were ready, if necessary, to wade knee-deep in blood for the _holy immaculate infallible church of Rome_." And why were these American Catholics willing to wade in blood for popery? Because they did not know the truth about it. The same reason holds good today; and that's the reason the priests are frantically trying to violate our Constitutional right of free speech and free press. _Above all things_, the priests dread the day when American fathers, husbands, sons and brothers find out _what it is_, that these devilish priests claim they have a right _to say, and to do_, in their secret intercourse with Catholic wives, sisters and daughters.