قراءة كتاب The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church

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The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church

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Schoffen Elizabeth

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Archbishop Christie

130 XII. My Emancipation 144 XIII. I Quit the Roman Catholic Church 155 XIV. Form for Dispensation of the "Holy" Vows—My Suit and Settlement With the Sisters of Charity 165 XV. My Recommendation from the Doctors of Portland—The Good Samaritan—I Affiliate With a Protestant Church—My New Work 181 XVI. My "Advertisement" in the Catholic Sentinel 191 XVII. The Care of Old Sisters by the Roman Catholic System 199 XVIII. Conclusion 205 Appendix 217

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
Elizabeth Schoffen attired in the garb of a Sister	2
Elizabeth Schoffen—Lecturer and Author	3
Elizabeth Schoffen one month before she entered the Convent	25
"Father" Louis de G. Schram	33
Sister Ethelbert	49
Caught in the Act of Kissing the Floor	55
St. Vincent's Hospital, Portland, Oregon	65
Mother House, Montreal, Canada	89
Fac-simile of My Diploma	107
Archbishop Alexander Christie of Portland, Oregon	139
Fac-simile of the Check I received from the Sisters of Charity	180
A Gift from God	195

THE DEMANDS OF ROME

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY

In writing this story of thirty-one years of my service in the Sisterhood of the Roman Catholic Church, I have no apologies to make. From the treatment I received after I left the cruel and oppressive Romish institution, I feel that there are thousands of Protestants, so-called, that need to know what is required and demanded of the poor, duped girls that are in these prisons of darkness that dot this beautiful country of ours from one end to the other, guising themselves under the cloak of religion.

Then, there is the Roman Catholic, who has been brought up in that faith, and yet feels that the system as practiced in this country is not in accord with the American principles. To these I wish to give my message, that they might know the inner workings of these damnable institutions, falsely called "charitable and religious."

With malice toward no one, but for love of God, charity and liberty to all, I tell this story of my life, with a sincere hope that it may—in some little way—help you, dear reader, and your posterity from drifting into the now threatening condition of pagan darkness and the indescribable, as well as uncalled for, unnatural, inhuman tortures I escaped from.

Protestants are brought up in such grand freedom and liberty of spirit, both civil and religious, that it is almost impossible for them to believe that there can be anything to prevent Roman Catholics (I now mean the good Roman Catholic) from enjoying the same rights and privileges that they do. If my Protestant friends will just stop one moment and think about the difference between Americanism and Catholicism, then they will realize how it is that the good Roman Catholic cannot enjoy the true liberal government that their forefathers fought, bled and died for, and which they are enjoying today.

Americanism means true democracy—the rule of the majority in matters civil, and the protection of the rights of the minority.

Americanism means freedom of thought, conscience, speech and press.

Americanism means the right to worship God according to the dictates of

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