THE NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC .HIERARCHY AND THE PAPAL JUBILEE

New Zealand Tablet, 24 December 1908, Page 30

THE NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC .HIERARCHY AND THE PAPAL JUBILEE

We have received from the Right Rev. the Bishop if Auckland the following translation of the Jubilee address from the New Zealand hierarchy presented by Bishop Lenihan to the Holy Father; — • 'Most Holy Father, ' We, the Archbishop and Bishops of New Zealand, prostrate at the feet of Your Holiness, gladly availing ourselves of this fitting and most happy occasion when the Catholic World is about to celebrate -with the utmost joy Your Sacerdotal Jubilee, return You hearty thanks for the recent Encyclical Letter On the Doctrines of the Modernists. . ' 'Although the impious and insane errors condemned by the Supreme Pastor and Interpreter and Defender of the Faith has infected very few if any, at least among Catholics, in this region, yet as such errors have wings which enable them to fly soon to all parts of -the earth, their condemnation by Your Voice has been most opportune. 'That all who have been infected with - these . errors may return to the truth now thev have been admonished and enlightened by the words of Your Holiness, we earnestly beseech Almighty God, through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, and we shall do all in our power that the decrees of Your Holiness may lead to a happy and most fruitful result. ' For our faithful flocks and for ourselves we most humbly beg the Apostolic Benediction. '*%* Francis, Archbishop of Wellington ; »£, John Joseph, Bishop of Christchurch ; ►£« Michael Verdon, Bishop of Dunedin ; »f George Michael, Bishop of Auckland. ' Wellington, February 22, A.D. 1905.' The Holy Father, (says Borne) was pleased to' return the address to Bishop Lenihan after adding to it the following autograph: 'To Our Venerable Brothers, congratulating them and begging for them from the lord all success in their Apostolate, We most lovingly, bestow the Apostolic Benediction in token of Our affection, and We extend the same to the faithful entrusted to their care. • ' October 29, 1908.' 'PIUS, PP. X.'