DR. McKEEFRY’S STATEMENT
(New Zeaiana Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 23. “The Christmas message first heard over 1900 years ago, ‘peace to men of good will,’ is one that finds an echo in every heart as the end of the year draws nigh,” says the Roman Catholic Metropolitan of New Zealand (the Most Rev. P. T. B. McKeefry) in a Christmas message. “It has been said that the Christmas message is indelibly stamped on the soul of the Western world. Certainly peace is uppermost in men’s minds, and all long for it. “The peace for which the heart of man longs is the peace spoken of by our Lord, when he said, ‘My peace I leave unto you.’ “His is the true peace, found by the shepherds at Bethlehem, just as is fcv.nd by all who, like the humble shepherds, are faithful to God’s messages and place him first in their I’ves.”
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 12
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