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No. 3301. PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1967.
(Registered at the G.P.O., Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
Prison After Care Needs Positive, Active Approach
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Sudden Death of Father Nowlan came sudDEATH denly to Father
"THE WORK for ex-prisoners and social misfits must be something which is outgoing and programmed to fit him back into Mr. A. Williams with the State President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Mr E. T. Murray. Mr. Williams spoke to various agencies on the after care of the community by activity and with self prisoners while he was in Perth. respect." his future employment to live in the commu- Aftercare to be held at and place in the com- nity.
the National University,
This was said this week during an interview with a man, munity. Canberra. The invitation to deThere non-resiwas St. a the Society, de Vincent Paul who directs of a member o dential number of about Social Action scribe the work of St. prototype hostel in London which aims to do just that—and two hundred participatMartin's initially came Mr. Williams, who has through Mr. Justice Mc ing in this outwardseems to be succeeding. St. Martin's for Clemens' visit to Lon
Robert S. Nowlan, Monday on S.M., evening. He was out in his car prior to returning to Belmont presbytery for an appointment. He was found in the early Tuesday hours of with the ignition off and the lights still burning. Father Nowlan had been a patient in St. John of God Hospital. Rivery ale, last Christmas with a heart condition. The late parish priest of BelmontRedcliffe parish was known by all as a tireless worker. It was said of him in Marist circles that he took on the work load of two men wherever he was. In the five and a half years he had been in Western Australia, he had become a familiar and well-respected figure at all gatherings of the clergy. Father Nowlan was born on June 30, 1909, in Queensland. He was educated by the Christian Brothers and was professed as a Marist on February 2, 1933. He ordained by was Archbishop Duhig in Brisbane on December 8. 1936. Most of his priestly life was spent at St. Patrick's, Church Hill, in Sydney. Other appointments were to New Zealand, Deer Park in Victoria, Claremont, Tasmania, and Perth in 1962. A Pontifical Concelebrated Requiem Mass was celebrated this (Thursday) morning at Redcliffe. F ather Nowlan's body was flown to Sydney for burial in the Marist Cemetery at Toongabbie. The Requiem was scheduled for 2.30 p.m. on Thursday. July 6.
looking activity of the been at THE director of St. the rehabilitation cen- individuals participate hostel, Mr. Williams five and a half years, don and that of Mr. Martin of Tours tre housed 41 men ini- in action in the commu- said. Those who lived in said that he was always Frank Hayes, principal the locality came back interested in the social parole officer in New Hostel in London, Eng- tially and in it they par.. nity. land, Mr. Austin Wil- ticipated in a threeSome of the tasks and still participated in action implications of South Wales. They were liams, arrived in Perth stage programme which which they have taken the work and this gave social education. He was attending the U.N. Conhad as its object the on are visits to old-age living example to those a secondary school tea- gress on the Prevention on Monday last. ultimate inde pendent pensioners, doing their presently there to see cher in London before of Crime and the Treat Mr. Williams spoke living of the individual household taking on this full-time ment of the Offender in chores, be- that it can all work. to members of the St. with self-respect in the sides their Stockholm. work. normal job. The thief one-time Vincent de Paul Society c ommunity. Even men who are tem- can and does explain to from visits Apart at a festival meeting The whole activity is porarily unemployable that he is still a thief. all State capital cities, held at the Redempto- o utgoing and what did constructive activity but that he no longer Mr. Williams has been rist Monastery on Tues- o therwise would have in community effort. thieves because he has invited to the National day evening. The com- been known as rejected This prepared him for found reason to be able Conference on Prison mencement Mass was celebrated by Father D. Bishop McKeon in his Burke, C.M., Rector of welcome to Mr. Austin St. Charles' Seminary. Williams said that it and Bishop M. McKeon was a great tribute to presided at the Mass the undoubted ability, and welcomed Mr. Wilcomplete c o m petence liams. and zeal in the work of As well as being diand rehabilitaparole rector of St. Martin's, tion that he had been Mr. Williams is the rerequested to lecture in presentative of the SoCanberra and all State city of Vincent de Paul capitals on this imporon the National Associa- A MARIST BROTHER who numbers tant work. tion for the Care and three Bishops among his ex-students He said that in his Resettlement of the Off ender. He is a co- will celebrate his opinion Mr. Williams Golden Jubilee next had become great in founder or an executive member of several simi- week. this field because he was He is Brother Theophane Hill, lar organisations in Enga great St. Vincent de Paul man. land, as well as an as- who is at present on the teaching staff sociate member of the of the Marist College Junior School at In saying this, Bishop Institute of McKeon said that he Welfare Officers and of the Subiaco. welcomed him as a St. National Association of Vincent de Paul man Brother Theophane is the son of the late Mr. Probation Officers. because, like them all, and Mrs. P. Hill, of Mount Malcolm and Leonora. he modelled himself on He received his primary education from the St. Vincent de Paul, of Dominican Sisters in the old church-school at whom it was said: have seen many and Leonora. From 1911 to 1913 he was a student at heard many, but never Mr. Williams said that C.B.C., St. George's Terrace, and his secondary the scope of St. have I seen or heard a education was completed at St. Ildephonsus' ColMartin's involves it in priest than St. holier the re- lege. New Norcia. Vincent de Paul." orientation and reinteAt S.I.C., Brother Theophane was a member of gration of socially and the first class presented for the Leaving Certifimentally disturbed indi- cate, a distinctsion he shared with the late Father viduals. St. Martin's was a Joseph Halpin and Mr. Harold Lynch. One of his Voluntary Catholic ven- classmates at this time was the late Monsignor E. ture and its position had Collins, former parish priest of Shenton Park. At become unique now in College, Brother Theophane was a distinguished that it was regarded as sportsman., being college champion athlete and Prototype experiment captain of the college XVIII. In what is described as In 1917 he entered the Marist Brothers' Novigroup IS HOLINESS Pope College, Manly, and he work. H Paul VI has appoint- was ordained on July tiate at Mittagong, New South Wales, where he Brother Theophane, Marist Jubilarian Men who either come r eceived the habit on July 13. ed Father Francis Car- 27, 1954. themselves or were reAfter ordination he Geraldton. Later, at New Norcia, one of his stu- roll, D.C.L., to be Coferred by voluntary or statutory s adjutor-Bishop er to v ed as assistant the dents was Bishop Bryan Gallagher of Port Pine. THREE BISHOPS r obation agencies or Most Reverend Francis priest in the parishes of To commemorate the Golden Jubilee officers a Mass of benefit from During his long career as a teaching Brother, Thanksgiving will be celebrated in St Joseph's Henschke, Bishop of Albury and Griffith bethe general and Wagga Wagga, with the fore going to Rome in Specific role which the Brother Theophane has been associated with Church, Subiaco. on Thursday, July 13, at 12 hostel right of succession. Fa- 1961 for further studies. plays. Men are schools in four States — Darlinghurst, Kogarah, noon. engaged in ther Carroll has also He gained his doctorate Friends and old boys of Brother Theophane will been appointed Titular. in Canon Law in 1964. and group group effort North Sydney, St. Benedict's (Broadway). Westtherapy mead and Forbes in New South Wales; Bendigo be most welcome at this Mass. On Sunday, July Bishop of Tasacorra. On his return to the Which is to linderstand help them in Victoria; Port Adelaide. Alberton and Glenelg 16. Brother Theophane will be glad to meet any Father Diocese of Wagga WagFrancis Patrick what society ?s and then want to be in South Australia; and New Norcia, Northam friends or ex -students at the Brothers' Monastery Carroll was born at ga, he was appointed in that Ganmain, New South Chancellor of the Dioand Subiaco in Western Australia. in Salvado Road, Subiaco. consider society and not cese and Director of While at Bendigo, teaching he was he taught B rother Theophane will be at 100 Gloster Wales, in 1930. themselves a reject from His studies for the Education, which positwo future Bishops—Archbishop T. Cahill of Street, Su.biaco, on Thursday afternoon, when it. Mr. priesthood were com- tions he has occupied Williams said that Canberra-Goulburn, and Bishop F. X. Thomas of old friends will be welcome. pleted at St. Patrick's since.
Sincere Welcome
Mario Brother Celebrates His Golden Jubilee
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NEW BISHOP APPOINTED