SOLICITUDE FOR NEEDY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 11 September 1930, Page 5

SOLICITUDE FOR NEEDY

CATHOLIC HOME OPENED,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.> WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. A new Convent, building attached to the Home of Compassion at Island Bay was formally opened this by Archbishop O’Shea. The building, which is practically completed, cost £25,500, of which £IB,OOO is already m hand. n , ~ The archbishop in his address said the Catholic people were engaged in a very large building programme and buildings to the value of over £200,000 were being erected in. the Wellington diocese during the present year. An institution such as the Home of Compassion was a concrete expression of solicitude for the poor and needy and the unfortunate. That solicitude had been shown right down through the ages and from its beginning the Catholic Church had enunciated the great principle that underlay its social and charitable activities that what the rich gave to the poor was only a return to God for the worldly possessions with which they were blessed. Mr R. McKeen, M.P., said the work of the home was undenominational in i that no differentiation was made to the religion of the different inmates. The home had nothing to equal it throughout New Zealand and Australia.