The Demands of Rome. Elizabeth Schoffen
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Elizabeth Schoffen
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
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066158545
Table of Contents
Sacrament of Penance—Mass and Communion—Extreme Unction—Indulgences—Annual Retreat.
My Trip to the General Mother House.
I Receive My Diploma for Nursing from St. Vincent's Hospital—Trouble Among the Sisters.
My Removal from St. Vincent's Hospital.
Two Interesting Letters from Sisters—My Letters for Redress to Archbishop Christie.
I Quit the Roman Catholic Church.
Form for Dispensation of the "Holy" Vows—My Suit and Settlement With the Sisters of Charity.
My "Advertisement" in the Catholic Sentinel.
The Care of Old Sisters by the Roman Catholic System.
PREFACE.
After many entreaties and a sincere vow, it is now "mine to tell the story" of "The Demands of Rome" as I have lived them during my long life and faithful service in the Roman Catholic Church and sisterhood. I would sound this story in the ear of everyone who has the interest of the oppressed at heart—in the ear of everyone who has the interest of disseminating knowledge, the light and power of which would be a great help to the freeing of the captive from religious bondage. For as I view it now, religious bondage is the most direful of all.
In a few words, "The Demands of Rome" from the individual are from the "cradle to the grave," and they do not stop there, he is followed through "purgatory" and into eternity. In the commercial world, you must listen to "The Demands of Rome" or the Roman Catholic trade goes elsewhere, and the anathema of the church is invoked upon you.
The church of Rome demands property, and when they have it, demand that they be not taxed for that privilege; they demand wealth, never being satisfied, but forever demanding; they demand the suppression of liberty; they demand life; they demand death.
Now, as a sister in the church of Rome, it is demand from the very day she enters the convent, as I have explained throughout this book. The first demand is the hair of the victim. The Word of God says, "If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her," but what does the church of Rome care what the Bible says? It is the demand from the church, and blind obedience of the subject to