DID MARTIN LUTHER HANG HIMSELF?
By Editor
The Catholic News and some other Catholic papers say that he did. It is an old falsehood, which some Catholic editors are honest enough to seem willing to admit. The following from the Independent of August 16 is to the point:— "The Michigan Catholic gives its readers, as if it were abundantly verified, the ridiculous story of the horrible death of Martin Luther by suicide after a drunken debauch. We should think it would know better. . . . Special credit is due to the Pittsburg Catholic, which warns its readers as follows:— "A story is going the round of the Catholic press that the arch apostate, Luther, met the fate of Judas—that in a drunken stupor he hanged himself from a bedpost. It is the revival of an old story, and is not well substantiated in history. "The same paper says that certain Catholic papers are publishing a sketch in reference to 'the apostate priest Hyacinthe's courtship and marriage,' which 'could not be further from the exact truth if the party purposely designed it.' An editor deserves praise who will not 'take up a report against his neighbor' or his enemy."