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TIME'S editors will probably never curb their Roman Catholic instincts enough to advertise, tritely "TIME?Kurt, Klear, Koncise...
Finally the 40 man-eating wolves especially captured in Siberia, will battle to the death with 40 savage imperial borzois. . . . Educational, and instructive. . . . The first proletarian spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions...
Astute diplomats have long recognized the wisdom of granting enemies, within discretion, a share of the realm. Thus was built the Roman Empire of old. That it finally fell by its inclusions was only because it became effete during and not because of the process. Last week a most significant ceremony occurred in Rome, at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran (Roman Catholic). Protestant President Doumergue of France was inducted (by proxy) as Canon.* The ceremony, attended by the whole Cathedral chapter, was a revival, after 100 years, of a distinction once granted the kings of France. The delicate matter...
...likely to become the chief Roman Catholic attorney for the defense in this great case before the bar of public opinion? Not that busy organizer His Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein, no giant among dialecticians. Not the genial, benevolent Cardinal Hayes. Most certainly not His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, preoccupied as he is with the affairs of Boston. Finally not His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty, pious, harmoniously resident amid the calm of Philadelphia. None of the four U. S. cardinals ranks with the late James Cardinal Gibbons in ability to drive a persuasive quill. Does Rome look...
...difficult it is to arrive at the truth of this hotly contested point may be seen upon scrutinizing the "unanswerable" statement of the encyclical that at her richest the Roman Catholic Church of Mexico never collected "a donation of even as much as one peso from each member of the flock per year." A Mexican would point out that "the flock" includes in Roman Catholic computation hundreds of thousands of peasants who have only the vaguest religious concepts, and habitually confuse the Trinity with the native gods of old Mexico. Should "the flock" be pruned of all these semi-pagans...