Briefly, this institution authorized priests and nuns who had been in service long enough to inspire confidence, to live in sexual relations, like man and wife. Dr. Fulton proceeds at length to describe how the priest selects his nun, how he makes his wishes known to her, how he quotes Scripture to overcome her scruples, how the "love room" is adorned with holy emblems and images, how the priest sprinkles holy water over the bed, how he then kneels and prays for a blessing on the union about to take place, and then----! As I have said a number of times, Dr. Fulton submitted his manuscript to Anthony Comstock. The chaste Cato of New York, advised the omission of many passages; but the whole of this hideous chapter describing how Pope Pius IX. authorized the priests to make use of the nuns, sexually, appears in the book with sufficient clearness to lay it in parallel columns with the abominations of Sodom, Gomorrha, the White Slave Traffic, the Decameron, the Heptameron, and Balzac's Merry Tales of the Abbeys of Touraine. Dr. Fulton's book was published in 1888. _He was never prosecuted for that terrible charge against Pope Pius IX._ He was never sued for libelling the priests and nuns. His charges were never officially denied. Cardinal Gibbons wrote his mendacious book, "The Faith of our Fathers," for the purpose of answering all that had been said against Popery. He mentioned Maria Monk by name, and denounced her true story as false. Yet, although Gibbons published his book _sixteen years after Dr. Fulton had hurled his awful charge against Pope Pius IX._, the Baltimore priest dared not challenge the statement of Dr. Fulton! Maria Monk--poor, outraged, persecuted woman, was dead: Dr. Justin D. Fulton, a fearless, powerful man, _was alive_! Gibbons was brave enough to vilely attack the dead woman: he was too much of a contemptible coward to attack the living man. The living man was ready with his evidence, _and he was a fighter_--and the catlike Gibbons knew it. Says Dr. Fulton-- "At first the female may be a little timid, &c. She may object, &c. But the priest, representing God's angel in this office, gently soothes the mind and quiets the fears of his future spouse by saying to her, He who will _come upon thee_ is not man, but is the holy one of God, and this union is pleasing to him;----." (At this point Anthony Comstock must have blushed and raised an objection, as the nun was doing, for the remainder of the sentence is stricken out.) But the text continues--"It will be holy and blessed; therefore I say unto thee, as the angel said unto Mary, Fear not." After this, the woman, being convinced by the language of heaven's messenger that all is right, gives the priest complete assurance of her willingness to submit by saying, as Mary said to the angel, "Be it done unto me according to thy word."