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3d. PERTH THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941.
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SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
Pope Broadcasts to Catholic World "WAYS OF PROVIDENCE IN HUMAN EVENTS" The official English text of the Pope's radio address on "The Ways of Providence in Human Events," which was broadcast to the world on Sunday, June 29, the Feast of S.S. Peter and Paul. SOME consideration on Divine Providence in human events: My dear children of the whole Catholic Church, your thoughts on this Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul turn with affection to Rome in terms of the triumphal hymn "0 Happy Rome! Who in the Martyr's Prince's blood-a twofold stream, art washed and doubly sanctified." But the happiness of Rome, which is a happiness of blood and faith, is your happiness too; for the faith of Rome, sealed here with the blood of the Princes of the Apostles on the right and on the left bank of the Tiber, is the faith that was preached to you; it is the faith that will be preached to You are exultant the whole world. at the thought of greeting Rome because you feel within you the thrill of the all -embracing Romanism of your Faith. Nineteen centuries ago, the Rome of the Caesars was baptised in the blood of the first Vicar of Christ and of the Apostle of the Gentiles, and was named the Rome of Christ; it was to be an enduring token of the indefectible supremacy of the Church's sacred authority, a token of the infallible teaching of her faith; and in that blood were written the first pages of a grand new story of the sacred battles and victories of Rome.
Cruelty of Nero. Have you ever asked yourselves what must have been the thoughts, the fears of the little handful of Christians scattered over the great pagan city when, having given hasty burial to the bodies of the two great martyrs-the one at the foot of the Vatican Hill and the other on the road to Ostia-they gathered, for the most part in the tenements of slaves or poor tradesmen, but some few in their wealthy homes, and felt the sense of loneliness almost of orphans at the disappearance of the two supreme Apostles? It was the fiercest moment in the tempest that, shortly before, the cruelty of Nero had let loose upon the infant Church; before eyes still rose the horrible vision of human torches glowing by night in the gardens of Caesar, of the quivering torn bodies in the arenas and in the streets. It seemed then that implacable cruelty had triumphed, striking at any overturnpresence ing the two pillars whose alone had sustained the faith and the groups. Christian courage of the little In that sunset of blood, how their hearts must have felt the distress of
sorrow as they found themselves now without the comfort and the company of those two strong spokesmen, abandoned to the brutality of a Nero and the dreadful power of Roman imperial greatness!
Faith Stronger Than Death.
But against the steel and physical force of the tyrant and of his servants they had received the spirit of faith and of love, stronger than torments of death, and We seem to see the aged Linus at that reunion which followed in the midst of the desolate community; Linus who was the first to be called to take the place of the departed Peter, to take into his hands that trembled with emotion the letter already sent by the faithful of Asia Minor and read over slowly the words of blessing, of
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trust, of comfort: "Blessed be the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to His great mercy, hath regenerated us unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ .
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wherein you shall greatly rejoice if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations.... Be you humbled therefore under the Mighty Hand of God casting all your care upon Him, for lie hath care of you the God of all grace Who .
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hath called us unto His eternal glory in Christ Jesus after you have suffered a little will Himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you." t First. Peter, chapter 1, verses 3-6; chapter 5, verses 6-10.) We too, beloved children, who by an inscrutable design of God have received, in succession to Peter, to Linus and to a hundred other saintly Pontiffs, the mission to comfort and confirm Our brethren in Jesus Christ (Luke, 22-23), We, like you, feel Our heart grow faint at the thought of the
tempest of evil, of suffering and of anguish that now rages over the world. There are not lacking, it is true, in the darkness of the storm, comforting sights which dilate our hearts with great and holy expectations; courage in defence of the fundamentals of Christian civilisation and confident hope in their triumph; the most intrepid patriotism; heroic acts of virtue; chosen souls ready for every sacrifice; widespread reawakening of faith and of piety. Bodies Torn by Bombs. But, on the other hand: sin and evil penetrating the lives of individuals, the sacred shrine of the family, the social organism; and being now no longer merely tolerated through weakness or impotence, but excused, exalted, entering as master into the most diverse phases of human life; decadence of the spirit of justice and charity; peoples overthrown or fallen into an abyss of disasters; human bodies torn by bombs or by machine-gun fire; wounded and sick who fill hospitals and come out often with ther health ruined, their limbs mutilated, invalids for the rest of their lives; prisoners far from those clear to them and often without news of them; individuals and families deported, transported, separated, torn from their homes, wandering in misery wthout support, without means of earning their daily bread; evils all of them which affect not only the fighters but weigh on the whole population, old men, women and children, the most innocent, the most peace -loving, those bereft of all defence; blockade and counter -blockades which aggravate almost everywhere the difficulty of getting supplies of foodstuffs, so that already, here and there, famine in all its horrors makes its presence felt. Added to this the indescribable suffering, pain and persecution which so many of Our dear sons and daughters-priests, religious, layfolk-in some places endure for the Name of Christ, because of their sacred ministry; pains and bitterness which anxiety for those that suffer does not permit Us to reveal in all their sad and moving details. Suggestion of Doubt. Before such an accumulation of evils, of obstacles to virtue, of disasters, of trials of every kind, it seems that
man's mind and judgment seem to tray and become confused, and perhaps in the heart of more than one of you has arisen the terrible suggestion of doubt, which perchance at the death of the two Apostles was a disturbing temptation for some of the less staunch Chrstians How can God permit all Can an Omnipotent God, in. this? finitely wise and infinitely good, pos(Continued on Back Cover.)
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