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Kidnapping raised in Federal Parliament
Western Australia’s award-winning Catholic newspaper since 1874 - Wednesday, 17 March 2009
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Correspondence reveals homesickness, illness and Order’s squabbles
The plight of 50 children kidnapped from a Thai orphanage last December almost certainly for sex trafficking, is winning increasing attention at the highest levels in Australia
Children at the Sang Khan Buri orphanage on the Thai-Burma border last year. Some of the children in this photograph may have been among the abducted. PHOTO: ONE HEART ASSOCIATION
BY BRIDGET SPINKS THE FEARED abduction of 50 children from a Perth-funded orphanage on the ThaiMyanmar border for child sex-trafficking in December last year has now been raised in Federal Parliament. In the House of Representatives, Federal Member for Pearce, Judi Moylan, called for tightening of the Sexual Offences Against Children Bill 2010, highlighting the plight of the missing children from the Sang Khan Buri orphanage aged 10 to 14 on 28 December 2009. “The Bill introduces new offences for Australians, both citizens and residents, dealing in child pornography and abuse material overseas,” Mrs Moylan told Federal Parliament on 9 March. “Such abhorrent behaviour is intolerable and illegal for Australians in Australia and should, and now will, be illegal Please turn to Page 8
Blessed Mary MacKillop, to be canonised by Pope Benedict XVI on 17 October this year in Rome, seated with her brother, Jesuit priest Fr Donald MacKillop SJ and their sister Annie in 1897 - 12 years before her death in Sydney in 1909. The photo reveals the nun having gained weight late in life, in part due to various illnesses which she describes in great detail in a new book containing her letters published by her Order, the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. PHOTO: SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF THE SACRED HEART
Mary’s last letters launched BY ANTHONY BARICH A third volume of Blessed Mary MacKillop’s letters just published by her Order reveals the homesickness, illness and even arguments experienced by her Sisters when establishing the congregation in New Zealand up until her death in 1909. Mary MacKillop on a mission - to her last breath, published by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart congregation which the nun co-founded in South Australia in 1866, showed her as a “warm human being, a trusted friend and a figure of authority who stands up to others when necessary”, said the book’s editor Sr
Sheila McCreanor, the Order’s secretary general. It was launched on 12 March at Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney, the congregation’s headquarters where Blessed MacKillop – whom Pope Benedict XVI will canonise in Rome on 17 October - was based from 1883 when Bishop Christopher Reynolds of Adelaide established a commission of inquiry into her Order. In an interview on 12 March with The Record, Sr McCreanor said it was “particularly inspiring” how she continued to write to her sisters in New Zealand to reassure and foster leadership in them despite her own sufferings – both physical and emotional from the Please turn to Page 3