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CATHOLIC NURSES
IN CONVENTION
Unique Gathering
Meets in Rome
A few weeks ago there was a great
convention pilgrimage of Catholic religious
and lay nurses at Rome. This
pilgrimage convention was pronounced
unique. His Excellency Archbishop
Pizzardo, who was president of the
convention, at the wish of the Holy
Father, announced at the closir/g session
that of all the conventions he had
seen in more than thirty-five years of
service at the Vatican, this was the best.
In spite of the summer heat, and of the
many holy places in Rome they desired
to visit, the religious and lay delegates
to the number of 2000 from twenty-eight
nations, attended every session.
The results of the convention, and
especially the instructions and encouragement
of the Holy Father, will make
themselves felt throughout the whole
Christian world. Religious and lay
nurses will look back to this event as a'
great milestone in the advance of Catholic
nursing and charity towards the
sick. While the Holy Father spoke for
an hour and a quarter at the public
audience at Castel Gandolfo, the great
audience filling the large court of the
Papal villa listened spellbound as his
Holiness urged them with paternal
authority and kindness to put themselves
in the forefront of skilled and
educated service to the sick and to practise
that service of eminence which he
considers to be the duty of every Catholic
nurse, whether religious or lay.
The Holy Father took up every point
in the address of presentation made by
Rev. Fr. Garesche, S.J., founder and
spiritual director of the international
organisation, and emphasised all he
had said. His Holiness made it clear
that he desires the Catholic nurses, religious
and lay, of the whole world to
organise, under the direction of their
respective Bishops, so that both by excellence
and numbers they may vindicate
Catholic principles, now too effectively
attacked by modern pagan practices
of eugenics, sterilisation, and euthanasia.
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