HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1927.
PAGE THREE
PHELPS REPLYTO
rim mii urn
(By Guy Fitch Phelps)
In "father" Cantwell's horrifflc er
ruption, which appeared in the
Heppner Gazette Times," of Jan. 13,
1127, the people of this region have
been treated to a sanmlc of the seeth
ing hatred and Inquisitional lack of
1 neness which lies at the core of
every priest's soul. This is the accu
mulated culture, largeness, good
I reeding, of centuries of Romanism.
The local "father" has betrayed him
seir. In his molten fury against
Protestantism he was blinded to the
fact that he was revealing the skele
ton nideousness of his system.
have never known a priest to write or
Bpeak in any other vein. As parts of
tne most inhuman, drunken, lust-
clogged institution on earth what else
could the priests be but Bamples of
tneir machine
"Father" Cantwell (I suppose they
are denominated "father" for cause,
and pass the point) does not know
me personally. He has never seen
me. His gall is that which created
the Inquisition and washed the world
in the blood of papal slaughter. Note
a few of his classic utterances: "As
there are certain animals, insects,
vermin that feed and fatten on the
corruption that fills the sewer, so
there are certain human animals, hu
man insects, human vermin, always
r.nd ever looking to the gutters for
their food. Such people with darken
ed and perverted minds, and corrupt
hearts, relish filth. Filth is food and
drink, and sleep to them . . . Mr.
Phelps, your oracle, your prophet,
your idol, your paragon of a preacher,
is about to speak. YOU VERMIN IN
HUMAN FORM GO AND LISTEN TO
HIM AND DRINK IN HIS ROTTEN
NESS." Here is a sample of what the
"mother church" does for one of her
sons. 1 am wondering what the peo
ple who have ben coming to hear me
speak will think of this. The priest
terms all who attend my lectures
"vermin," "creatures which feed and
fatten on sewerage." This is in keep
lng with the assertion of the "fath
ers" that Protestants are not mar
ried, because the ceremony was not
performed by a "priest," and there
fore they are living in immorality.
Naturally, their children for the same
reason are alligitimate. If, as we
have been taught, words arc "signs
of ideas, then we have here "fath
er" Cantwell's ideas. How lofty, how
classic, how cultured they must be
judged by his written speech. And
all you people who do not grovel in
the stalls of Romanism, all who have
the courage to defy the Scarlet Wo
men's despotism, are "vermin," just
animals which eat at the end of a
sewer." You come to your own church.
You listen to a man you are paying
for his work, and your speaker dis
cusses themes which every Catholic
priest in America is constantly de
bating and arguing, and because you
do this, you are classed as "vermin,"
by this hyphenated papist.
"Father" Cantwell laments because
our court rooms are scenes of im
moral revelations and unblushing
shamelessness of young girls. But
just how much docs a drunken priest
in a town, and a filthy confessional,
where such a priest muck-rakes the
souls of women at his leisure and
pleasure, do to provide such court
scenes? And what is the mori' ef
fect on womanhood and girlhood to
have a bachelor man god in the com
munity, with the keys to the local
nunnery, that prison for Catholic wo
manhood, in his petticoats? Ah, and
what shall be said of the fact that a
vast majority of the bootlegging cases
in the nation are Roman Catholics,
brought to justice for imitating their
ghostly confessors, who are notorious
for their violations of the law?
"Father" Cantwell asks me to be
specific regarding priestly degrada
tion. Ho wants me to name place and
priest and woman. Is he in earnest?
Dare he press the case? Then will I
btgin in Heppner, and bring facts
which will make the local infallibil
ity hunt cover. How childish, how
pitiful, this bombast. Need I join the
catholic priesthood to know a drunk
en priest? Need I become a "father
confessor" in order to argue the na
ture of a given institution? May not
any one study the logic of a nunnery?
Are not things known in the very na
ture of cases? He speaks of the mor
al eclipse of Methodist preachers.
There are plenty of them. But Meth
odist preachers fall in spite of their
standards, and on their individual
freeagency. It is not the misconduct
of a given person which constitutes
a case, but the effect on individuals
of an institution. And if Methodist
preachers, with wives and legitimate
children, and without a confessional,
fall, then how foul, how degraded,
how drunken, how licentious, how
double-doctrined, how beastly must
be the Catholic priesthood, human
nature and weakness being witness.
The faces of the priests usually bear
witness to their secret conduct.
The furious priest, who enmo roar
ing from his bachelor den when I re
ferred to the confessional in its re
lation to the woman and himself, re
minds me of a "woe unto the man
who brings scandal." Exactlyl But
ten woes to tho vulture who origin
ates it. Is it "scandal" to expose
white slavery? Is it "Bcandul" to toll
the truth on a foul thing such as the
rapal confcssionnl, where, as tho lo
cal priest knows, countless Catholic
women have been debauched for all
worlds? Is that "scandal?" I know
the priestly method is to "move the
priest" and tell the victim to keep
still. But covering sin is not saving
tho kingdom nor the church. Is it
"scandal" to tell the diabolical prac
tices of a wine-soaked and despotic
and club-Bwinging, boycotting priest
hood? Then is "fathor" Cantwell's
own brothers guilty of it. Protest
ant scholars go to Catholic writors
for their records of the popes and the
unspeakable corruption of tho Cath
olic church during the Dnrk Ages and
the sixteenth century. Platinn wrote
the lives of the popes, and laid open
their ungodliness. DuPin, a Catholic,
did the same. Bellarmin addod his
testimony to the rest. Beronius Is a
fourth witness who uncovered the
carrion sinks of the papacy, yet he
lived and died a cardinal. And who
were Arnold, Hubs, Savaranola, Luther
and most of the other Reformers but
prieBts who exposed Roman Catholic
foulness Ah, and who were the na
tions of people who seceeded from the
so-called "mother church" but Cath
olic people, exploited, degraded, mis
treated, priest-ridden, till they could
endure no more? Come, "father"
Cantwell, were all those millions mis
taken? Were they not Catholics
driven to madness by just such blas
phemous doctrines and insufferable
priestly lordliness as you exhibit in
your article? Think you that you are
Letting anywhere with an intelligent
reading people by calling everything
that hits your drunken fraternity,
lies and slanders and sewerage?" Re
member, "father" Cantwell, you are
not in Mexico or South America. Pro
testant people think and read, and
they see through your spume and
dust clearly.
Father" Cantwell uses many scrip
lure reierenoes. xnis is amusing.
wnat authority is the Bible to
Catholic Priest when it condemns
him? And since he seeks to prove
some of his doctrines by the Bible
he will not dare charge Protestants
with inconsistency if we prove ALL of
ours by it. And how dare he argue
that "private interpretation" is a fal
lacy when he submits to our "private
judgment" all the references by which
lie hopes to convince us of the truth
of his position? By this priest him
self I prove that the Protestant po-
sition is correct in matters of teach
ing authority.
With this thought before us let me
say that the "keyes" of which Roman
priests make so much are easy of ex
planation. Christ made this state.
ment to ALL the apostles, not Peter
alone. And whereever a man stands
teaching, with the Bible in his hand
that man has the keyes which bind
and loose in all worlds. The man
who reads, "except ye repent ye shall
all likewise perish," is using the
keyes" which "bind and loose." And
by the plain Word of God, the Bible,
any man is "bound" here and here
after. This is no priestly prerogative;
something in the gastric juices of a
stomach filled with a priest-created
Deity, but in the infallible Book.
which "father" Cantwell auotes as
infallible to prove his point. If what
he quoted "binds" him, and it does,
for he seeks to jirove his cardinal doc
trine Dy it, then is every man bound
by it. If we are not bound by the
Bible what does bind us? Does "fa
ther" Cantwell's naked word bind the
souls in Heppner to heaven or hell?
If his opinion were challenged to
what would he go to prove his argu
ment if not to the Bible?
This brings up the question of in
fallibility of which he speaks. He
claims that the Roman Church is in
fallible in her teaching deposit and
authority.' Very well, will the "fath
er" please tell us where this Catholic
infallibility is located in his organi
zation? Is "father" Cantwell infalli
ble? No. Is the council infallible?
No, because a pope can change the
decrees of councils or confirm them.
Is the pope then, the only infallible
creature in the Roman despotism?
res, and he is only so when he speaks
of "faith and morals," and for the
whole church. So, the infallibility
of which the local "father" boasts
rests in one man, the pope. Lovely!
One man is to tell the world what is
right and what to think and do. But
are the priests, such as "father"
Cantwell, infallible? No. Then how
does this local priest, who is no more
infallible than I, know that he in
fallibly applies infallibility? May he
not get things mixed to his members,
specially after consuming many
masses And if he does not enjoy
infallibility how do his members know
that he is infallibly giving it to
them? Is not, therefore, "father"
Cantwell running on "private judg
ment" with the rest of us? And how
much wiser to read from the Bible,
out of hand, than to pass on the gar
bled and uncertain opinions of popes,
who have contradicted each other in
doctrine and have shamed the world
with their depraved conduct.
There waB not in the Apostolic
church, nor among the church Fath
ers such a thing as a modern Catholic
Confessional. Keep in mind that the
Fathers of the first centuries' were de
cidedly priestly and more or less cor
rupt in doctrine. Would "father"
Cantwell accept all the vagaries of
those same fathers? Hardly. We all
believe in "confession," but not to a
priest, to God, through Christ. But
Mr. Cantwell tells us that a priest
has the power to bind one in sin or
loose them through the confessional.
That his judgment alone is authority
in the case. That is, the local priest
has Bent God on a vacation, and he
tella people whether they are forgiv
en or not, after he hears their con
fession. Ligouri, one of the Catholic
doctors, says that if a priest pardons
a penitent God must agree to it. If
he condemns that same penitent,
though God would pardon him yet
Deity must agree with the priest. And
this infamous blasphemy, which only
the most sodden degradation could
believe, is set forth in this article I
am answering witft a Drazenness
which is appalling.
When a woman is in the confess
ional the priest has the privilege,
more, it is his duty, to ask her every
question he wishes. He can ask her
of every Bex temptation; of every sex
:ni.sstep, where the act was committed,
with whom, how often, all the cir
cumstances. He can search with the
scrphent curiosity of hell the soul of
a maiden to make her tell if she has
been associated with young men; if
she has exposed her body; if she has
had improper desires while in the
company of men. More, no even
questions her, if he wishes, as to
nether she has related herself to an
nimal. All this is openly taught in
Ligouri's theology. Let "father"
Cantwell deny it if he dares, I have
the originnl latin and the correct
translation. These vultures in the
devil's box," the confessional, are
commanded by their "infallible" the
ologinna (?) to "break down modesty"
n a woman while she Is confessing,
and to search her soul till they have
alimed it over with their unthinkable
degradation, even as the python cov
ers its crushed victim with a serpent
accretion before swallowing it. He
con ask this woman every vulgar
ucstion he wishes regarding her hus
band and their private life. So vile,
so unuttcrnbly carrion is this prlostly
gate to hell that I dare not even hint
at what goes on there Every Pro
testant should remember two things!
The priest has the authority and the
commission to ask ANYTHING of a
penitent, and the penitent must ans
wer on the paina of perdition. I have
talked to scores of women who left
the confessional in disgust and re
nounced Romanism because of what
had been asked them by a priest.
Certainly Christ only has one
church, but that it a spiritual church,
not boiAidaried by any organized com
pany of professors. If "father" Cant
well's position is right all outside the
Catholic church are lost, and all in
side are saved. Will he dare assert
this, aside from inference? Then I
will strangle him with the fact that
Bishop Purcell, who debated Alexan
der Campbell, admitted that there
are "popes in hell." I am sure that
all of them are there. In their mid
night stupidity the priests of Rome
can only weigh spiritual values in
the terms of priestly power, and sac
raments in the hands of men. Their
brains are so violated that they can
not conceive of a church apart from
themselves. God's church consists
of all who have been regenerated by
Mis bpirit, through the Blood of
Christ BY FAITH IN THAT BLOOD.
Those children of the kingdom are
found in and outside of all ecclesias
ticsims, and their spiritual standing
is not conditioned on the word or
whim of a priest, but the promises
and commandments of the Bible, and
the conformity of their spirits there
to, through the grace of Christ, which
saves them on the terms of the sac
rifice once for all made for sin. So
may a man become a child of God on
an island of the sea alone, without a
church or a confessor. So may he
live and die saved.
What was the Rock of which Christ
spoke? It was not Peter. The Greek
in this passage means that Peter was
a small fragment of rock, while Christ
speaks of himself as a mountain of
rock. Christ asked as to his (Christ's)
Deity. Peter replied that some
thought His a prophet, etc., a unitar
ian definition. Then Christ asked him
directly, "What do you think of my
sonship?" Peter answered that he
was God. Christ immediately replied
"Blessed art thou Simon ... for flesh
and blood hath not revealed it unto
thee (revealed what to Peter? The
Deity and Sonship of Christ), and on
THIS Rock; what rock? The rock
Peter? Never! On the rock of
Christ's Godhood the church was to
founded, and the gates-of hell
were never to prevail against that
doctrine. How absurd, how perverted
the view that the church was to be
built on a man. No such blasphemous
tnmg was ever hinted at till the
bishops of Rome aspired to power,
and invented that monstrous inter
pretation to sustain their infamous
wishes. It is clearly stated in the
Bible that "Other foundation can no
man lay than that is laid, which is
Christ." Christ, then is the founda
tion and the cornerstone of the
hurch, not Peter.
Since infallibility rests in the popes
let us glance in closing at a few of
those monsters. The 29th pope be
came an apostate to save his life. He
offered incense to idols in the temples
of Vesta and Isis, and tried to get
other christians to do the same. This
pope is one of the infallibles. The
36th pope denounced Arianism, went
into exile because of it, and became
an Arian later. The letter in which
he subscribed to this false doctrine
is still in existence. How could such
a pope speak infallibility of faith and
morals? Pope Damascus and Ursin
were chosen popes at the same time,
Which was the true one? The 42nd
pope believed and taught the doctrine
of Pelagius, which was that a man
can save himself. The former pope
had utterly rejected this doctrine.
Two popes disagree in this case on
doctrine. In the case of the 43rd pope
two candidates were up for the chair
of Peter. Emperor Honorius decided
which was the true pope. The 45th
pope bitterly opposed the Manicheans
who taught communion in one kind,
that is the method NOW used by "fa
ther" Cantwell, withholding the cup
from the laity. There have been three
popes reigning in Rome at the same
time, a trinity of drunken libertines
vho met by night to spend among
harolts what they had stolen by day.
for almost eighty years there have
been gaps without a pope. For almost
eighty years no pope dared live in
Rome. The 64th pope, Gregory, de-
flarded that the claim of universal
Bishop of the church, as held now,
was blasphemy. Now all popes claim
it. Gregory is classed as an infallible
pope though he denied the claim.
The 96th pope was a murderer and
a fiend, the infamous degenerate Ste
phen the 4th. Pope Stephen the 7th
dug up the carcass of pope Formosus,
propped the reeking thing in a chair,
tried and condemned it, cut off three
fingers of the hand. Formosus had
killed a pope. From a. d. 896 to a. d.
900, a period of four years, five popes
were consecrated. Pope Leo was
kicked out by a servant who became
a pope. Pope Sergiua lived with the
infamous harlot Theodora and her
two harlot daughters. Pope John 10th
also shared the loves of this woman.
She made a pope in a. d. 915. One of
the daughters overthrew this pope.
This harlot, Morozia, made her own
son pope John 11th. His father was
pope Sergiua. A brother of this pope
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into prison. She made her son pope
John 12th, at nine years of age. Pope
John 12th was the son of the harlot
Morioza by her own son Alberic
(Long's Hist. Popes, p. 127.) This
child in turn committed incest with
hia own mother and her sister. He
invoked the aid of Jupiter in prayer.
Here we have popes made by fallen
women, yet they are called" true popeB
today by such priesta as "father"
Cantwell.
Cardinal Baronius, a true priest of
the church, says: "Never had diis
ions, civil wars . . . caused the church
to Buffer so much as the MONSTERS
who installed themselves on the
throne of Christ by simony and mur
ders. The Roman church was trans
formed into a shameless courtesan
covered with silks and gold; the pal
ace of the Latern was become a dis
graceful tavern in which eccelesias
tics of ALL nations disputed with
harlots over the price of infamy.
Never did priests, and especially
popes, commit so many adultries,
rapes, incests, murders, robberies;
and never was the ignorance of the
clergy so great. . . . Thus the tem
pest of abomination fastened itself
on the church. . . . Who would legi
timate the pontiffs who seated them
selves on the chair of the apostles?
And what must have been the cardin
als selected by such monsters?"
And this is the infallible papacy,
which "father" Cantwell obeys more I
than God! I have barely touched the
unthinkable degradatlen of this mon
strous line. They believed and
preached every nagan doctrine. They
committed every crime known. They
were cruelty and lust incarnate. They
washed the world in innocent blood
even as they have in Mexico. They
have filled the world with supersti
tion and rags, even as Mexico and
South America. They covered France
v-'ith skulls because the people wished
to be free of these creatures which
Cardina 1 Baronius calls monsters.
They set up the inquisition and slaug-
tered millions by it. It is this sodden,
monstrous, blood-drunk thing, the
blight of the ages and the scourge of
aien, which the local priest defends.
I did not begin this fight. He was
'.iere when I came, the apologist for
this pop--doniinated, unAmerican or
ganization. I have but answered him.
This is the Scarlet Woman, or Revela
tion, intoxicated with gore, who has
committed fornication (church and
state) with the kings of the earth.
The local priest "who saya hia name
in Cantwell," assures us that this har
lot Woman is old. Ah, so is blasphe
uy, the pagan religions, and murder.
The Greek church is older than the
Roman, if that means anything. His
church does not ovn Canada, America,
Mexico, Serbia, England's Empire,
France and other lands. He rails at
the story of Maria Monk. Cantwell
KNOWS that she told the truth. He
knows it by his own experience. He
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and pass it on. It is the priesthood
laid bare. Get also, "Why PrieBts
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fessional," from the same source.
I beg all Catholics to assert their
human rights and be free from this
priestly despotism and degradation.
Never let one of your grils or wives
go again to Confession, where the
priest picks their souls.
And now, Mr. Cantwell, your church
teaches that if a priest does not have
the INTENTION of the church to
correctly and truly perform a priest
ly act when he baptizes, consecrates
the Host, ordains, etc., it is null and
void. ThiB being true, how do you
know, Mr. Cantwell, that you were
ever really baptized, took the mass,
or were ordained, since you cannot
know the mind of the priest when he
gave you these sacraments? Will you
answer these things? Yes, one thous
and years from today.
I hereby challenge you to publicly
debate the following question: Re
solved, that the Catholic Church is
not the True Church of God.
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