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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 52, 24 December 1903, Page 17

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Greetings! To the many friends, clerical arid lay, who have sent us kindly Christmas greetings, and to all oiur readers, we wish a joyful festival and a bright new year brimful of every temporal gfood, alid, above all, of that happiness -wihich* ne'er entered at am 'eye ' Hut * resides m. things unseen.'

The Cardinal Will Stay ' Not all the gold in Cathay,' said Cardinal Moran to an interviewer, on his return to Australia, ' would tempt me away again for pleasure, and I hope duty will not call me. I have come back to die in Australia. No, no, do not misunderstand me. I do not feel like dying just yet, 'but I am 74 yea,rs of age, you know, and must accustom myself to the thought that I must presently go the way we all must go. Yes,' he added, 1 I have come to stay. I have maide the journey to Rome eleven times since coming to Australia, and I hope I have made my last trip. I love Australia, and will' not willingly leave it again. It was stated somewhere tihat I intended remaining in Rome. That was wrioixg. It was neither ,my desire nor my intention. As a Ciajwlinal,! of course, I could stay in Rome if I chose. Every Cardinal has his titular church in Rome, and I have mine. But I like Australia, 'and the scope for work it gives me, so I come back to it and am more than content— l am happy. While in Rome I was useful to the English-speaking pilgrims and potentates in arranging audiences with the Holy Father. Perhaps it was this fact that gave rise to the rumor that I was to remain there.'