culprit who has money or friends supply them with same, as the
Catholic Church is and always has been a great money machine, as
money, in the eyes of the Catholic dignitaries, covers up a multitude
of sins.

You may not know it, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that the
monasteries never allow the officers of the civil laws to enter, and
suppose the officers did enter, the culprit would never be found, as
Catholic institutions are built with the purpose of sheltering her
abominable faithless in case these criminals' desire to hide
themselves therein, as the convents, monasteries and cloisters have a
labyrinth which would mystify any one who was not used to these
underground passages.

No one ever learned where the dignitary of this Catholic institution
at Vechta went, but we were thoroughly convinced that he was hiding
somewhere in a monastery.

At this point in my religious training I perceived the nonsense of
celibacy, and the Apostle's injunction: "Nevertheless, to avoid
fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman
have her own husband." (I Cor. 7:2.) But the teachings of my
childhood caused me to believe that it would be sacrilegious upon my
part to even allow myself to believe that the Pope of Rome could
possibly make a mistake, therefore I did as all true Catholics are
expected to do, and forced myself to believe that all of the
abominations practiced by this church were godly.

At this time I would conceal myself in privacy, and endeavor to
reason why a minister of the gospel should be expected to do things