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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 10, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 50.

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Note and Comment

Exercising Arbitrary Power

REFERRING to the recent announcement that “the Holy Office has decided that Christian burial shall be refused to Catholics who are married to non-Catholics by non-Catholic clergymen,” the Christian Advocate declares this exclusion of non-Catholic Christians from its burial-grounds to be “one of the chains invented by men, which make the Roman Catholic Church the greatest mechanism for the consolidation and exercise of power the world has ever seen.” Such a “mechanism” is the product of human effort, and was never contrived by the true Head of the church.