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Experiences of Archbishop Simonds on Papal Mission to Germany . . His Grace the Coadjutor Archbishop, Most Rev. J. D. Simonds, D.D., Ph.D., returned to Melbourne on New Year's Eve, after visiting Europe. Vivid description of the Nuremberg Trials, the appalling state of Germany, his audience with Pope Pius XII., the prosperity of Ireland, Russian delegates at Mass, and glimpses of other countries were given by His Grace to ''Advocate" representative.
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sent at the canonisation ceremonies of St. Francis Cabrini. Most important, however, was his Grace's audience with the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII. His Grace was particularly impressed by Displaced Peoples, to make polygamy the law of the His Grace also visited the South Pope Piue's knowledge of and inThe Displaced People-the State. of Italy and Malta. In Italy, there terest in things Austeallan, and D.P.'e--were a serious problem. Papal Rolle. was, of course, signs of the great was very grateful for Ms HoliSeven million had been forced out Despite defects in some relief devastation that had occurred in ness's knowledge and thoughtful- from Siodetan land, Czechoslovakia, organisations the people were get- the path of war, but there were ness. Pope Pins asked especially Poland, and other States, and had ting food from outside, For ex- also signs of vigorous reconstrucafter Archbishop Mannix, In re- come into the Western provinces ample, the Pope's relief work was tion. ference to recent reports that con- without any homes or means of considerable. People sometimes IRELAND. cern had been felt for the Holy support. The people into whose wondered whether the Pope was Extraordinary Progress, Father's health, Archbishop Sim- provinces they came were themsel- able to get food to send to stricken After leaving the Continent, onds said that the Pope had now ves hard pressed in the struggle people, but His Holiness did get Archbishop Simcnds spent some recovered after his recent short for existence, yet were it and it was being distributed. time in London and was received faced wid rest at Castelgandolfo and was now 'he heavy burden of caring for Archbishop Simonds said that he kindly by Cardinal Griffin, who was very well. His Holiness entrust- these millions of destitute refugees. himself went into Germany with a most hospitable and helpful, From ed the Archbishop with a special On the Bishops of Western Ger- convoy of 17 huge U.S.A. motor Britain His Grace went across to mission to Cardinals Faulhaber, many there was placed an addi- trucks carrying Papal relief, and Ireland, where he was struck by Munich, and Frings, of Cologne, tional and onerous responsibility. this convoy was but one of four the extraordinary progresZ that and placed a Vatican car at his dis- Germany depended largely upon that had been dispatched about that had taken place during the past 20 posal for' his journey into Ger- the Eastern territory for agricul. time, The food was years.' distributed Ireland was one of the MOST REV. DR. J. D. SIMONDS many. tural needs, but these parts were by the Caritas Bund, a Catholic Re- most prosperous countries in the GERMANY. under Russian control and lief the Organisation. world. Food was plentiful, and After nine months' absence Appalling Conditions. Russians were not allowing much there had been considerable activabroad, representing the Bishops Conditions in Germany were ap- to pass to the West. Added to Nuremberg Trials, ity in re-housing, both in city and of Austrialia on ecclesiastical busiOne of Archbishop Simonds's countryside, Villages had ness, His Grace tbe Coadjutor - palling, said Archbishop Simonds. this, there were transport difficulbeen The material destruction was in- ties. most interesting experiences in transformed and on all sides there Archbishop of Melbourne, Most credible. Cardinal told His Grace Faulhaber gave a vivid but dis- Germany was his attendance at a was evidence that the Government Rev. J. D. Simonds, D.D., Ph.D., returned to Melbourne on the eve him that only one church in Mun- tressing account of the people's session of the Nuremberg Trials, had done a good job. He was search ich for had escaped food, He had bombing, and seen lie was given a ticket which en- greatly impressed by Mr. de Valof the New the Grace Year. garbage abled him to sit in the press gal- era, who was obviously an outlooks remarkably well and inn -tan- along the Rhine, around Dussel- them scavenging in the mess lery and he heard the indictment standing statesman. He also met ned after his busy and responsible dorf and Cologne, only 5 per cent bins outside the officers' journey, and gave an interesting of the buildings were habitable. looking for scraps of food or cigar., being read by Sir Hartley Shaw - the President, Mr. O'Kelly, and visCigarette butts, he cross. Of the eight judges on the ited the North, where, at Armagh, account of his trip to a repre- There were no streets, only heaps ette butts. he met the Primate of All Ireland, sentative of "The Advocate." Most Rev. 1)r. D'Alton. Archbishop Simonds went direct In Ireland, His Grace was happy to Europe and landed at Marseilles, to meet many of his relative.; hb where he saw for the first time the father had come from Kells, Co. awful damage caused by the war. ?death, and his mother from CarFrance itself was in the throes of low. He offered Mass in the litpost-war readjustment but His tle church where his father and Grace was optimistic regarding the mother had been baptised, country's future. He was particu- of rubble. The people had no- &aid, had a great value. Waiters bench, six wore their judicial robes, From Liverpool, Archbishop larly impressed by the movement where to live except in in hotels cleared them from ash- but :be two Soviet judges were in Simonds sailed for America and for the re-conversion of France. cellars and improvised shel- trays and they were processed and military uniform. His Grace proHe visited There was a strong Catholic elite ters. There were many sold for high prices. A packet of duced the neatly printed booklet, or landed at Montreal, and the pilgrimages which he saw bodies still unrecovered in the ruins cigarettes given to the nuns at a key to the trial, which was pre- Quebec and went on to the Unitat Lourdes were manifestations of and the odour of death was every- convent enabled them to exchange sented to those in attendance, and ed States, He met practically the of the an extraordinary devotion. There where noticeable. The housing the gift for 32 pounds of potatoes. with the aid of which the proceed- whole of the Hierarchy U.S.A. and was invited to many was an earnest effort being made problem has been rendered still ings could be easily followed. The Youth Practically Pagan. dioceses. to bring home to the people the more acute by the arrival of the Among the problems which the booklet contained all the relevant NEW YORK. practical significance of the Mass families of members of the occu- Bishops of Germany including and the necessary information, While in New York His Grace and the Sacraments in their lives, pation forces and the subsequent Church generally had to face, was the indictments, facts about the ac- was present at the Mass offered and it was true that the great pop. requisitioning of habitable dwell. the problem of youth. One could cused, and a plan of the court, on the Feast of Christ the King, to revival, written insp. ular liturgical showing the position of all those not be anything but pessimistic which the U.N. delegates, includMalnutrition. about in various magazines, was A set of about the present generation, which taking an official part. ing the Russians, were invited. having a phenomenal effect. The food ration was very meagre had no ideals since the -phones enabled one bead to listen crash of St. Patrick's Cathedral was packthe speaker to to direct or either At Liege, in Belgium, his Grace and the people, especially children, National Socialism. The young ed and there were 33 nations repreparticipated in the religious cere- were suffering from malnutrition. people, after 10 years of Nazi pro- any one of the interpreters who sented. The three Russian delemonies held in honour of the cen- Cardinal Fringe told His Grace that paganda and training, had no idea were translating what was being gates did not give notice of their tenary of the Institution of the in his seminary 15 per cent. of the of applying religion to life, and acid into various languages. acceptance of the invitation till the Feast of Corpus Christi. He cele- students had active tuberculosis were practically pagan, They could Dignity and Decorum. last moment, but they came and brated one of the Pontifical Mass- and at least 70 per cent, showed not get enthusiastic about anyHis Grace was impressed by the listened in two very direct serYet they had to thing more. It would take a gen- dignity and decorum with which es. At Brussels he attended the traces of it. mons, in French and English on Young Christian Workers' Interna- carry on. There was urgent need eration for the community to re- the proceedings were conducted. the necessity of the observance by for food and clothing; children in a movement tional Congress, cover from the effects of the Hitler He noted the varying dispositions nations of the moral law of Christ which, as g)piscopal Chairman in were collapsing in the schools for regime and its collapse. of tht accused Nazis, which rang. the King if chaos was to be avoidAustralia, he was particularly in- want of proper nourishment. Archbishop Simonds, after touch- ed from the attitude of Goering, ed in international relations. The terested. At the Congress he met It was necessary, in this indus- ing on certain moral problems, who sat with his head in his hands Russian delegates did not kneel. Canon Cardijn, founder of the trial part of Germany particularly, said that there were two women to throughout the session, to that of His Grace observed, but they were Y.C.W. that industries should be set going each man in Germany. and he had Von Papen, who followed every very respectful during the Solemn again in order that the people may been informed that the archives thing with close attention and con- High Mass. Afterwards, the deleAudience With Holy Father, From Belgium Archbishop Sim- have a chance of recovering from discovered after Germany's defeat stantly scribbled notes to his coun- gates' met the Bishops at the enonds went to 'Rome and was pre - the disastrous results of the war. revealed that the Nazis were about sel. (Continued on Back Cover.)
When the Russians Attended High Mass
Good Government and Prosperity in Ireland