Covenanter Witness Vol. 53 - Rparchives.org

effect."properly."properly."and begging for re-admission to the Roman Catholicchurch.The hierarchy, through Catholic members of theBoard of Directors, tried to throw me out of thehospital I had built. While a priest I had been aleader to Catholics. Now I was untrustworthy, dishonest, and inefficient. I had foreseen this moveand had been replacing Catholics with Protestantsas Board members.When the Catholics could not run me out of thehospital they tried to wreck the hospital and arestill trying to do it. The clergy told their people toboycott it, which to a great extent they have, unlessthey are so poor that the sisters will, not take themin. Nuns in Phoenix schools told children of ournurses that I was a sinful man and that they shouldtell their mothers not to work for me. Catholic doctors tried to coax even non-Catholics away from ourinstitution.Roman Catholicism will stoop to the lowest depthsto crush its opposition. The hierarchy can no longerburn at the stake. But one of its devout subjects didtry to choke me to death as a traitor to Rome. Another tried to kill my wife.A Catholic woman swore before a Catholic judgein San Mateo, California, that I was the father ofher child. It was the charge of bastardy. The Catholicdistrict attorney had the Catholic chief of police(O'Brien) call me and demand that I surrender fortrial or be extradited. My wife and Phoenix friendshad to sign affidavits that I was at home in Phoenixwhen the Catholic conspirators said I was near SanFrancisco. The record of this frame up is in thePhoenix police department.This opposition has continued up to the presenttime. The night I left Phoenix to begin this triptwo members of the hospital Board of Trustees triedto force my dismissal on the grounds that I was causing religious dissension in Phoenix by speaking inProtestant churches and by writing the book, "PEOPLE'S PADRE" which the Beacon Press will releasein March. The majority of that Board stood solidlybehind me so the dissatisfied members resigned.A few days later a Phoenix resident wired theBeacon Press suggesting that the publication of mybook be dropped.Yesterday, I received a condemning letter froman anonymous priest here in Washington.This afternoon, hours before this speech wasreleased, the Knights of Columbus issued a statementto the press calling me another Judas and a traitorto Christ.Catholic TotalitarianismThe Roman Catholic Church wants to makeAmerica Catholic. If it does, the things that it hasdone to me will be the pattern of our land. To theextent that it is succeeding in spreading Catholicpower our freedom is now being attacked and in someplaces destroyed. The Catholic church believes thatit alone has the truth, that all of its teachings aretrue, that all men have an obligation of acceptingthe truth and therefore must accept its doctrines andpractice its morals. It believes that all other religionsare false and have no right to freedom or even existence.It teaches that canon law should be respectedand observed in all countries including the UnitedStates.September 22, 1954The Catholic bishops of America in the thirdcouncil of Baltimore issued this statement, "It isobvious in countries like our own where from rudimentary beginnings our organization is only gradually advancing towards perfection, the full application of these (Roman Catholic) laws is impractible; but in proportion as they become practicable, itis our desire not less than that of the Holy See, thattheyshould go intoWe would not object if the Catholic hierarchytried to force its laws and its beliefs only on AmericanCatholics. But if we are to survive we must fightback when the hierarchy tries to force its laws andits beliefs on non-Catholic Americans. That is what itis trying to do. That is what in many respects it issucceeding in doing.There is no need tonight for me to tell you ofthe encroachments of the Catholic Hierarchy on ourfreedoms through control of school boards in manycities, through lobbies in Congress and State Legislatures, through the influence of the Index of Forbidden books on our libraries, through the Catholiccode of Medical Ethics in Sisters Hospitals, throughCatholic laws on marriage, through threats of andthe actual imposition of boycotts on the nation'snewspapers, radios, magazines and theaters.You as friends and members of Protestants andOther Americans United are well aware of all theseviolations of Americanism. Yours is our country'smost effective organization in resisting this creeping foreign paralysis.About a month ago I had lunch with a judge ofone of our local Arizona superior courts. We werediscussing the Catholic code of hospital ethics andCatholic restrictions of marriage. He had been interested in a young man, whose marriage was ruinedby the war. The boy was in love with a Catholic girl.Her church forbad the marriage.The judge touched the heart of the Catholicproblem : "When an old man sitting in Rome can tellmy friend's son in Arizona that he can't marry thegirl he loves or can condemn another friend to deathby stopping an operation that would save her lifethen why should we worry about the tyranny ofcommunism America has already surrendered tothe tyrannyofRome."(To be continued)BOBBY GREENLEASE"Ninety-five per cent of the men in this prisonare here because of liquor but they learned toolate."Carl Austin Hall, kidnap-mufderer of BobbyGreenlease, as he began his twenty-seven days inDeath Row of Missouri state penitentiary prior to hisexecution."I would give anything if I could go back tothat Sunday in September and erase everything thathas happened since. It all seems like a nightmare tome. ... I am not trying in any way to make anyexcuse for my actions, as I don't have any; but Ithink anyone will find if you drink from one to twofifths of whiskey a day for a year and a half thatyour brain doesn't functionyour brain doesn't functionBonnieBrown Heady, co-conspirator with Carl Hall in theGreenlease kidnap-murder.183