“Gloom Religions”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 9

“Gloom Religions”

MEN TURNED FROM GOD An Outspoken Priest LESS LIBERTY TO-DAY THAN EVER

/United P.A.—By Telegraph — Ckmpyright) Reed. Noon. SYDNEY. To-day OUR world to-day is full of gloom religions, and they are erecting a barrier between men and God.” declared Father Locking-ton. head of the Riverview College. Sydney, when speaking at a great gathering in the City Town Hall connected with the Eucharistic Congress festival.

He added: "As a result of these gloom religions, millions of ordinary people are wandering in doubt or in the valley of despair, going down in the morass of materialism. “Most people look upon religion as a depressing thing, and a perverter of human life, and upon ministers as killjoys. This conception of religion is very prevalent, and from the point of ' view of the man in the street is quite ' right. "The position therefore must be faced. ‘{Men died in millions some time ( ago in the cause of liberty; yet you have less of it to-day than ever." MARCH OF THE BISHOPS In a raging gale 70,000 people to-day congregated around St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, to wit- . ness the official opening of the 29th Eucharistic Congress. The procession, which marched from the presbytery to the cathedral, and which was composed of prelates of all ( countries, was highly impressive. The 1 Papal Legate, Cardinal Ceretti, gave i his benediction to the vast crowd as it entered the cathedral. j As the cars arrived containing the t Church dignitaries in their multi-col- ] oured robes, the enormous crowds t which had been waiting for hours c cheered to the echo. It was late in the 1 afternoon when the Papal party, 1 headed by Pripce Lecroy leading a , solemn march of 50 bishops, entered the cathedral. A few minutes later t Archbishop Kelly entered the pulpit and welcomed the visitors. £ Archbishop Kelly said: “The purpose of our undertaking is strictly and j simply religious, not social, not political, not secular in any sense. We meet 1 in order to profess publicly the Roman Catholic doctrine regarding the greatest of the Sacraments, the Eucharist, the fountain of supernatural life. “To this end the congress employs i solemn functions, public processions, conferences, sermons in various 1 languages, congregational singing, general communions, and special devotions for the children of our schools." i PAPAL BRIEF READ After the congress had been officially ‘ opened by Bishop Heylen, who is its i

president, the Papal brief was r* ad, which was addressed to Cardinal Coretti, the Papal Legate. After stating that the Cardinal had been appointed Legate to represent the person of Pope Pius, it said: “His Holiness looks forward with joy to the remarkable manifestation of reverence and loyalty with which the faithful people of Australia will receive the Vicar of Christ in the person of his Legate, and anticipates the splendid tribute of divine honour they will pay to the Most Holy Sacrament in the land where it was so humiliated in olden days, and where the priests, who are the dispensers of God’s holy mysteries, were prohibited from the celebration of His unbloody sacrifice.’* TRANSMISSION OF SERVICES TIMES OF RELAY FROM IYA The times of transmission from Australia in connection with the Eucharistic Congress were announced last night from Farmers’, Sydney. IYA will not, owing to the flight tonight and to-morrow, be relaying all these programmes. We therefore print two tables. The first gives the transmission times from Sydney, all corrected to New Zealand time, for the benefit of direct listeners. The latter list gives the times of relay from IYA, Auckland: Sydney transmissions (New Zealand time): To-day (Thursday).—s-6.30 p.m.; 9.30-11.30 p.m. Friday, September 7.—11.30 a.m.-1.30 p.m.; 5-6.30 p.m.; 9.30-11.30 p.m. Saturday, September 8.—11.30 a.m.1.30 p.m.; 5-6.30 p.m. Sunday,* September 9. —5-6.30 p.m. Relay by IYA: To-day (Thursday).—s-630 p.m. Friday, September 7.—11.30 a.m.-1.30 p.m.; 5-6.30 p.m. Saturday, September 8.—11.30 a.m.1.30 p.m.; 5-6.30 p.m. Sunday, September 9.—Uncertain. The Sydney stations for the transmission will be 2FC on 442 metres, and 2ME, whose wave-length will vary between 28 and 32 metres in order not to “jam” with transmissions from the Southern Cross.