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Subscriber Muehlenbeck is right. TIME'S editor of RELIGION knew that certain Roman priests and professors had been excommunicated for their adherence to the Old Catholic tenets. He glossed over the fact that the many minority bishops disagreeing with the 1870 Council's doctrine of ex-cathedra infallibility had been whipped into line.—ED.
Wants Map
Sirs:
Per inclosed clipping, your foreign correspondent seems to be fond of the expression "as every one knows"; also "see previous numbers of TIME." Why not request him to eliminate unnecessary verbiage?
Also it seems to me that his "stuff," "Celebrities Dine," in TIME of Jan. 11, 1926, is not real foreign news or worth-while reading except for those who enjoy Town Topics, The Police Gazette, etc.
Personally I wish that TIME were printed with clearer type on unglazed paper like the World's Work, and that it had a map with each number showing the places mentioned therein.
H. W. CLARKE
Washington, D. C.
Enthusiast
Sirs : I believe in enthusiasm. For a year I have been broadcasting the superiorities of three possessions—my Gardner Eight-in-line car, my daughter's Charleston and my weekly copy of TIME.
Imagine my chagrin on reading your report of the New York Auto Show (TIME Jan. 18) when I found no reference to the Gardner in your list of Eights for less than $2,000. The Gardner is $1995, is one of the first Eight-in-line cars ever made and—well, I rank it among eights as I rank TIME among periodicals. . . . A. W. CORRIGAN
Cleveland, Ohio
Popes
Sirs:
As a reader of your wonderfully liberal weekly newsmagazine TIME, I wish to call your attention that it is very much regretted that you have retracted such a true statement as to the claims of "Pope Pius XI," the assumed Vicar of Christ, on p. 2, Jan. 25 issue. Therefore, I sincerely hope that you will find a little space in your magazine, and print these lines for the good of all of us, and especially for the benefit of Subscribers William Boyd, B. V. Hubbard and the rest in their line.
Please notice, that true histories openly tell that the Pope claims absolute right not only over civil and spiritual matters of his own faith, but that he claims and assumes much higher authority on this earth. The history speaks of such claims as follows:
[Warring] Pope Martin V. [1417-1431] said of himself in his address to his ambassadors to Constantinople:
"The most holy and most happy, who is the arbiter of heaven and the Lord of earth . . . the master of the universe, the father of the kings, the light of the world" (Rome As It Is, p. 181).
Archbishop Stephen of Petraca, at Council of Lateran, said of Pope Leo that he had "power above all power, both in heaven and on earth" (Decretals of Gregory III [731-741; Gregory XIII, 1572-1585]).
On authority of the papal council [Jesuit], Cardinal Bellarmine [1542-1621] said:
"All the. names which are given in the Scriptures to Christ, even these same names are given the Pope" (B. II, Ch. 17).
Pope Nicholas [5 Popes of this name; Nicholas V, 1447-1455] :
"The Pope is God, and therefore man cannot judge him" (Dissertation 96, Chap.7).