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...money. Though it is not absolutely necessary to have outside means when you go into politics, it is not only convenient but it helps a man to think and act straight. We all rightly blame the public official who thinks simply in terms of popularity and wants, like the Vicar of Bray, to hold office at all costs. If, however, a man's livelihood and that of his children depends on holding office, it makes it very hard for him to decide to go against public opinion, no matter how wrong he may think...
Many lifelong readers of the Times wondered how much longer they would continue to support a paper which has not only misapplied the title of the Vicar of Christ but has even headlined...
...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...
Pope Pius XI is Vicar of Christ who, his Church claims, received from God the absolute right over all created things, civil affairs, Christians and even non-Christians. So the Vicar can say with equanimity, with no doubt, in an encyclical letter sent last week to all patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops for the instruction of their flocks...
...truth, if the pilgrims can say that they were able freely and safely to circulate in the streets of this centre of Catholicism, they cannot but have noticed that the same cannot be said of the Vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Father of all the Faithful, whom they were unable to approach and see except by crossing the threshold which He himself, so long as present conditions continue, neither can nor must cross...