William Doino,Catholic Culture
At the beginning of the 19th century, a book appeared in North America entitled The unpleasant Disclosures of Maria Monk. Lurid (shocking; sensational) and shocking, and it told the story of one Maria Monk who,after a Protestant upbringing near Montreal, entered a Canadian convent to be educated and become a nun. To her horror, and she found the spot a den of sin,with secret tunnels admitting priests to the convent for purposes whose results flowered in the strangling of unwanted babies, buried in lime pits. It was all very shocking and -- given the anti-Catholic nativism rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) at the time --just what a particular section of...
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