Apologetics

Francisco Ferrer (born Jan. 10, 1859; murdered by the Jesuit Inquisition  Oct. 13, 1909). Francisco Ferrer was a Spanish educator who tried to bring his countrymen out of the Dark Ages and establish a Modern School or Escuala Moderna for ALL the Spanish children: For his trouble he was arrested by the Jesuit led Inquisition and killed by a firing squad in 1908.

Joseph Martin McCabe was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a Roman Catholic priest earlier in his life. Although he is now largely forgotten, he was "one of the great mouthpieces of freethought in England" Joseph McCabe wrote hundreds of books. Many of them were published by Julius-Haldeman in Kansas. During WW II, the FBI —Federal Bureau of Inquisition —visited the publisher and demanded that he stop publishing books by Mr. McCabe. Some of his books were actually banned from entering the country.

It is one of the ironies of the history of religion that what we call the great, historical, or organized religions took their rise from prophets whose mission in life was to denounce religion in the sense in which these organized bodies use the word.

THE author of this book, the full title of which is "The Decay of the Church of Rome," was a Franciscan monk in England when he withdrew from the Roman Catholic Church twenty years ago. Since then he has attained distinction in literature that has brought him to the front rank among English authors. 'Among other books he has written, "Twelve Years in a Monastery," "St. Augustine and His Age," "Talleyrand," "The Iron Cardinal," "Peter Abelard," and "Life in a Modern Monastery." In his latest work, a large volume of 320 pages, Mr. McCabe reviews the events which have brought a net loss in membership to the Roman Church of eighty millions in the last seventy years. The work is startling in its stern accuracy, painstaking research and vigorous presentation of facts and figures. It is also remarkable for its fairness of tone and freedom from religious bias. Mr. McCabe takes up the condition of the Roman Church in the different countries of the world, one by one, the statements of fact being in each case reinforced by figures from official sources, many quotations being taken from Roman Catholic publications.