What is the object of these hospitals? _It is chiefly to provide for the
illicit offspring of priests and nuns, and such other unmarried females
as the priests can seduce through the confessional._
But, it will be said, there are no lying-in hospitals attached to the
nunneries in this country. True, there are not; but I know from my own
experience, _through the confessional_, that it would be well, if there
were.
_There would be fewer abortions; there would be fewer infants strangled
and murdered._
It is not generally known to Americans that the crime of procuring
abortion, is a common, everyday crime in popish nunneries.
It is not known to Americans, that strangling and putting to death
infants, is common in nunneries throughout this country.
_It is done systematically and methodically, ACCORDING TO POPISH
INSTRUCTIONS._"
The modus operandi is this--and then the ex-priest describes how the
priest, the father of the child, baptises it, and thus insures its
passage to Heaven, as per popish belief; and how the abbess, or Mother
Superior, then shuts off the breath of the babe, at the nose: after
which the poor little body is thrown into the lime-pit to be consumed.
Father Hogan also describes how the priests and monks give desired
children to wives whose husbands are not productive. The woman is easily
led to believe that God's will is enlisted in her behalf, and that He
has commissioned the priest to accomplish what the husband failed at:
_result_, happy wife, bouncing babe, rapturous husband, chuckling
priest.
Father Hogan _tells it all_; and the rancorous papists never dared to
hale him into court!