Chapter III.

All Children of Protestant Parents Are
Declared Bastards by Catholicism.


The Catholic Church declares that all of those who contract marriage
otherwise than in the presence of a Catholic Priest, that such
marriages are null and void.

Catholicism further declares that your darling child, which is the
fruit of your marriage, is nothing more nor less than a common
bastard.

How do you Protestants like to hear this? How do you feel when you
know that this is the belief and opinion of all Catholic dignitaries,
and this belief is taught to all the Catholic world by those who
presume to dictate?

Your darling baby boy or girl is branded as an illegitimate offspring
by Catholicism, simply because their parents were not united in
wedlock by a Catholic Priest, who perhaps is as immoral as hell
itself.

The reason why Catholicism so sternly demands that all should be
married by the priestcraft is from a monetary standpoint, as the
Catholic priest gets his fee, as he will not under any circumstances
unite any one in wedlock without a fee, and I have known in many
instances where the contracting parties were unable to pay a money
fee, and the grasping priestcraft would refuse to unite them in