Quite simply, the sense of sorrow and of loss was nationwide and profound. The task of expressing the grief of the Irish nation on the death of His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, is an easy one. I bhfianaise na Tríonóide Ró-Naofa go raibh sé, in éindí le Muire Mháthair, Banríon na bhFlaitheas, dá dtug sé ómós agus caondúthracht a chroí ionúin. Like his predecessor, he honoured our language, and paid us the compliment of learning some phrases in it with which to greet us. Many in this House were privileged to meet the Holy Father and, as he looked upon us and spoke to us, we all felt and knew that we were in the presence of one who was saintly and gentle, gracious and wise. Later, as Pope, on a number of occasions he spoke in the most appreciative terms of our history and of our past and present rôles in the world. In 1937, whilst still Cardinal Secretary of State, in his address as Papal Legate at Lisieux, he recalled the Eucharistic Congress of 1932 and paid a warm tribute to our country and to this city. He had, I believe, a special regard for this country, with a clear understanding of the past struggles of our nation, a lively interest in our independence and a high admiration for the contribution made by our people to the spread of Christianity and of the Western civilisation founded upon it. In no country, I venture to say, and among no people was the death of the Holy Father received with greater sorrow than here in Ireland. He was, truly, the Universal Father: it is not strange that he should now be universally mourned. In this connection, a distinguished historian has remarked that no Pope in the entire history of Christendom was so unwearied in his public utterances or made fuller use of all the available means of communication, and that he has left behind a corpus of Papal doctrine covering the whole field of law in its relation to ethics and politics and to the fundamental principles of human society.Īll his utterances, and particularly those delivered yearly at Christmas-time, were marked by the deepest feeling and the most earnest solicitude for the welfare of every individual, irrespective of race, or nation, or creed or culture. In the work of that mission, the Holy Father, throughout the whole of his Pontificate, was untiring, constantly pointing to righteousness- Justice and Charity-as the only basis on which peace could effectively be secured. Close on sixteen years later, during his serious illness in 1954, moved by the ever-present threat of another world war, he said that, looking back, he felt that it was the intention of Divine Providence to assign him the particular mission of helping to lead mankind back to peace.
Peter, just before the last world war, he took for his motto opus justitiae pax. When the late Holy Father succeeded to the See of St. That, as a tribute of respect to the memory of His Holiness Pope Pius XII, Dáil Éireann do now adjourn, and that an expression of its profound sorrow on the death of the Holy Father be sent to His Eminence the Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. Mar chomharta urrama do chuimhne An Phápa Ró-Naofa Pius XII, go rachaidh Dáil Éireann ar athló anois agus go gcuirfear in iúl do Dhéan Ró-Oirirc Choláiste Naofa na gCairdinéal an fíor-bhrón atá uirthi mar gheall ar bhás An Athar Ró-Naofa. Appearing before an Oireachtas Committee.
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