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Show Popo Pius X. to America. "One favor I would ask of you," said the Holy Father, addressing the American pilgrims in Rome several weeks ago. "When you return to your own country tell all you fellow-countrymen that the Pope loves them all, and distance only makes his affection warmer for them, for the more distant they are the nearer he feels them to his. heart Say that he recommended himself to your and their prayers, that God may look with a merciful eye on Hhi Church, and support and strengthen strength-en the pilot who. has to guide the rhip to the port of salvation. And may the blessing of the Lord be for all of you and them a fount of all consolation consola-tion and comfort." |