Second Australasian Catholic Congress

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11, 16 March 1905, Page 29

Second Australasian Catholic Congress

Tbe following letter to his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, from lAc Right Reverend Monsignor Murphy President of the Irish College in Rome, was rt>ceivetl on 23rd February, 1905, and is included in the Congress \olume .— & Collegio Irlandese, „ T^ T Roma Jan. 14, 1905. My Dear Lord Archbishop,— On the 11th inst. I had occasion to go to the Pope, and, a recent letter from Cardinal' Moran having given me details of Your Cangres B in Melbourne, I was able to tell these to the Holy Pather. I was able to tell him of the 2000 associates, of the 70 papers that were read, of tJhe 2( 00 young men, representing yc*ur religious societies, who went to Holy Communion on the morning of tf* day on which the Congress opened ... 1 c ™\d not exaggerate the interest and the pleasure with which the Pope heard all this. He began to speak of how beautiful it was to see the life of that youn X nation developing under the influence of religion • how happy your Grace must be to see this rich rew'arfd of your labors, and such fair promise foi the future ",, f He gratified, as well as interested, to P*nfUor\ P p P n rS een C u °^ ribut/ed b^ the Roman V * ' lla and Ma rucchi. At the end the Pone charges me to comey his warm congratulations to the Archbishop of Melbourne, and to say he sent him from Ins heart the Apostolic Benediction I am sure all this will be not unacceptable to your faiSrUvTnT' my dCai " L ° rd Ard *i*°P. your ver" W. 11. MURPHY. It is anticipated that the first copies of the Congress volume vvill be icady f O r delivery about March 20