and when these bishops' sermons,

而当这些主教们开始布道时
and now I'm talking more about the nineteenth century,

我现在说的更多的是十九世纪
when they start talking about the dark secrets--

当他们开始谈论十分机密的事情时
what are the dark secrets at a time of plunging birthrate?

在出生率急转直下的当时何为机密呢
Birth control,birth control.

节育就是节育
And that tells you something very indirectly as well.

谈及这些时也是要非常隐晦的
And what about even going to mass?

那么去做弥撒的人又是什么情况呢
In the Catholic Church you're supposed to go to mass on Sunday

在天主教会中弥撒日应为周日
and you're certainly supposed to go to mass,

而你在复活节之时理应参加
and confession,on Easter,at Easter time.

做弥撒并忏悔
And so that's one of the things they had the priests count up.

因此这是牧师需清点人数的项目之一
They would count people who were in the church.

他们会清点来教堂的人数