The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
AID HOLY YEAR
PILGRIMS To
ROME
New York Committee VIII
Be in General Charge Of
Plans in U. S.

ny International News Service.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Prepara-
lions in the United States for
observance of the Holy Year. 1895,
proclaimed in a recent bun by
Pope Plus XII have made consider.
able progress, according to informa-
ton recently obtained from Catholic
clergy in this city. The New York
committee for caring for pilgrims
and arranging their orderly passage
to Rome will be in general charge
OF the pilgrimage from all parts
Of the United States arranging for
their transportation. to this city,
and so regulating their departures
that ships will not be crowded.
The bull has been translated into
every known tongue spoken by
Catholics, so that the entire world
has by this time been informed Of
the Jubilee Year. Cardinal Hayes,
Of New York, has appointed Aux.
iliary Bishop John j. Dunno, head
OF the New York committee.
The formal bull Of the Pope, On.
nouncing the beginning of the
Holy Year as "the first vespers Of
the Nativity Of Our Lord in the
year 1924" and its ending as the
first vespers Of the Nativity Of
Our Lord in the year 1926" is &C.
companted by three apostolic CON.
stituttons or regulations.
Apostolic Regulations.
These are:
One on the suspension of indul-
gence9, one comforting oxtraordi.
nary powers on confessors living
In Rome or accompanying pilgrim.
ages to the basilicas, and one out.
lining the method Of gaining the
indulgenceS by those unable to
make the trip to the Holy City.
The first of these regulations
suspends all indulgences outside
Rome for the entire Holy Year,
with the exception Of the Church
Of the Holy Angels at Assist, Italy,
those granted for the Angelus and
the hour of death. The faculty Of
absolving in reserved cases outside
Of Rome, also, is suspended by the
first regulation.
The second regulation provides
for reducing from ten to three
days the period for daily prayers
in the basilicas of st. Peters, St.
PauPs and the Lateran.
The third regulation provides for
the issuance of pastoral instruc.
tions by the bishop in each diocese
for the benefit Of both sexes;
prisoners, the sick and others unable
to make the journey to Rome.
The bull reads, in its instructions
to those of the faith:
Tin the course Of the Holy Year
we grant and impart, in the Lord,
the fullest indulgence. remission
and pardon of their sins to all the
faithful of both sexes who, having
confessed and received Holy Com.
munion, shall visit the basilicas Of
st. Peter, st. Paul, st. John
Latern and st. Mary Major, and
pray for our intention at least
once a day for twenty days."
The twenty days, it Is explained,
applies only to residents of Rome.
For pilgrims from abroad the
time is reduced to ten days, and
confessors are permitted to use
their discretion in reducing the
period Of three days.
World Peace.
The Pope expresses the hope that
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peace and Christian unity.
I'VE mean" the document reads,
mot so much the peace written. in
treaties as that impressed on souls
that which must be restored
indeed, be so far off as 1t was in
past times; nevertheless it is
further off than our hopes and the
hopes of all would desire. If, then,
| you who live in Rome and who
would come here with your souls
purified of sin and lit up by
charity, pray at the Tomb of the
Apostles for such precious bless.
ing, shall 1t not be that we may
hope that Christ, the Prince of
Peace, who once with a gesture
GAINED the waves Of the Sea Of
Galilee, moved at last with pity for
His people, may ordain that the
storm by which now so long Europe
has been overcome, may be checked
and calmed?"
Gift Of 5000.
Cardinal o'ConnelI, OF Boston,
has announced q gift, Of $4,000 to.
ward the gold hammers which will
be used at the opening of the
basilioas on Christmas Eve. This
will be applied to the expense for
st. Peters. One hammer will be
used at each basilica. None of
them, however, will cost so much
as Cardinal O'Connell's gift. The
combined gifts will constitute a
jubilee offering.
The hammers are to be donated
--one by Italy, one by Spain, one
by France and the fourth by the
combined Catholic nations OF the
remainder Of the world.
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