The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk
Maria Monk
This book, first published in 1835, is one of the all-time great anti-Catholic diatribes of recent history. And despite the fact that Miss Monk was proved beyond any reasonable doubt to be a fraud and to have completely fabricated this work, Books for Alert Protestants reprints it as factual history. Read about the lurid abuse of the confessional; the sexual abuse heaped upon poor Miss Monk by priest and abbess alike; the horrible methods of punishment applied; the infanticide of unwanted babies and, last but not least, the general corruption of the Roman Catholic Church—a Catholic Protocols of the Elders of Zion but with rampant sex and cruelty. If only Catholic nuns were brutal vixens like Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS! Alas most nuns only sacrifice their lives to education without any pay or such benefits as Social Security. This was one of the first American mass market anti-religious propagandist tracts. As an imaginative, titillating fantasy of the Catholic Church, it’s great but as an influential piece of anti-religious propaganda, Maria Monk’s disclosures may have paved the way but are not on a par with the aforementioned Protocols. MM/ES
Publisher: Ozark
Paperback: 125 pages