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FATHER O'SULLIVAN FOUND AFTER HIS
PLANE FORCED DOWN While piloting his. Tiger Moth plane from his parish of Port Hedland to participate in the clergy Retreat, the Rev. F. O'Sullivan failed to arrive and a search was organised. He was sighted on January 5, apparently unhurt.
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No. 2634
Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, ear t a a ewspaper. transmission, by
Perth, Thursday, Jan. 7, 1954
WOMAN SENDS FIRST WESTRAL AND REPORT
_-MOMENTOUS DAY FOR PAPUA ORDAINED NATIVE AS FIRST AustraW Cochrane, a' vest alike in black soutanes and the tropic morning, the Bisho
Julians starched white lace, and lays his hands on 7,''' Miss lienata the Fathers-a" those head, asking the Holy Spirit /i' flan who is teaching at Port Moresby, lastly swttoconsultrisasiTtytleleavmiteheir to come down on him and make him a priest forever. ,' Papua, New Guinea, sends the following Sweat runs down the faces stepsiho ofin the to ordination of the attentive native people. the of sanctuary, Frmthtehe c first-hand account one stirs. In the front ,
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row, a woman with a shaven the priesthood on November 29 of the first the Roro language. "God, who is all powerful, head weeps quietly. It is one Papuan at Mainohana. Man, by sin, of Julian's sisters. created man.
except Today, in Mainohana vii- high. Some were naked off from God. The Bishop places the folded . Julian Efi became a for a breech cloth and a col- cut himself sent His Son, Jesus white chasuble over Julian's est, the first Papuan ever lection of ornamental belts God to stand between, shoulders, and then with the be ordained in his own and armlets, but most came Christ, is dignity, the tenderness and in shirts and blue or scarlet Himself and man. He Country. therefore the only true priest. the holiness of the Church, teen years before, he had ramis. he anoints the hands of the from tatooed He died, before girls, just "But, Roro for St. Mary's Seminary priest with Holy Chrism near head to foot in delicate, sooty. Jesus Christ gave to the new 4, Vunapope Mission It is Father Louis, the stand swayed to patterns, Apostles the power I geometric "At first, when ul. ., priest assisting the Papuan I didn't understand their hips and set their fine, before God as priests. And Bishop, who binds the anoint. i r t s though we are only men, we it was all about," he yellow -dyed grass s knecks hands ed with a white cloth. who are ordained are priests "But as the years went swinging. Round their of in Jesus Christ. And so, by And then the grey-haired well, things seemed to get hung massive necklacesgoldand the Bishop, French of will plaques also His power, Julian Botany and physics dogs' teeth, young Patory I found easy, but lip pearl shell, finely worked become a united at symbolically puan, of tortoiseshelland philosophy, they ornaments The Bishop asks the people the altar, together continue The Rev. Finbar O'Sullivan pictured with his 'tiger niarci, and I think we all all their portable wealth for Moth plane shortly after be had secured his flying licence if they know of anything the Mass. to husbands prospective the to last year. difficulty with Latin which might prevent Julian The crowd jostles and see and admire. with." from becoming a priest. No Pushes round the Mission left Car- ecclesiastical course at All one speaks.- He -1000 Attend n's studies were inter House. The sun beats down FatherforO'Sullivan Geraldton at 3.48 Hallow's College. by the Japanese inva The crowd grew denser as Julian, reminds him of the on eager painted faces. From narvon Januray 4 and was an arrived Father in 1942. With his fel- they neared Mainohana Mis- duties he will have to under- shining brown skins comes a p.m. toonarrive at 7.18 p.m. due and meticuBeautifully slightly in Geraldton in January 1949, take. oil, coconut of smell 1 ntudents, he was forced to sion Schoolboys Station. nn side by side with Aus- dressed uniformly in blue lously, the ceremony con- rancid in the hot sun. The The plane was sighted over and was attached to the t(anni prisoners of war. ramis marched in; a troop of tinues. red and yellow flowers round two pastoral stations 70 to staff of St. Francis Xavier's he was interned in Scouts; young men with their Julian prostrates himself in the top -knots of the young 80 miles south of Cameroon, Cathedral. the last appearance being at `Pain} with all them em- faces intricately painted all front of the altar, while the women begin to wilt. In 1952 he was anpointed to of Vunapope Mission. :, lec over in traditional designs of Waima, Roro and Mekeo Suddenly, there is silence. 6.45 p.m. Rev. E. Bryan adwhite his in Julian, to Father Father Sullivan assist the the women old people. accustomed colours; well many Of War with shaven heads and P.O Latin, take up the responses chasuble, the bird of paradise ranApparently ' huge parish of minister into thunderstorm activthe end of the war, adornment, naked piccanin- of the Litany of the Saints. escaping from the broken net ity which was developing Port Hedland. e was not as ingle build - nies-all the people-Julian's Julian rises and kneels of paganism, conies out to his in the area. His plane seem- Father Bryan, the pioneer left at the Mission. There people`--came hurrying in for before the Bishop. In silence, people to give them his first ingly had to make a forced flying priest of the Geraldton no question of re -opening landing in a clay pan, 5 miles diocese, was a seasoned aviin the fierce hot sunlight of blessing. the seminary. Then Bishop the ordination. 60 ator. Father O'Sullivan likestation, from Wooramel gaththem of 4000 About Wade of the Solomon Islands miles south of Carnarvon. wise studied aeronautics and He ered in the open space near Came to the rescue. Sighted by the pilot of a gained his flying license ght an Army camp at the newly erected Mission The unfinished M.A. mail plane on the morn- through the Royal Aero Club. lictna in his own diocese buildings. house first ing of Jan. 5, Father O'Sulli- Father O'Sullivan's founded a new seminary, church was too small to people so the village van was seen walking around flight in his Tiger Moth was it Julian was able to them, of out sanctuary a had built unhurt. to apparently plane, his Geraldton studies. Perth to his from 41 up on a platform. The Rev. Finbar 0'801 - attend the consecration of lien he returned to Papua doors, high R. terrorists. J. Dr. Rev. Gallagher, Most B. Th_ Most Rev. TM] is a native of County the report to his superior, Traditional Designs Archbishop Knox. who is Cork, Ireland. He read his in June, 1952. -op Andre Sorin, M.S.C., They had used the tra- Knox, the newly consecrated visiting relatives in this tie Catholic Mission, Yule ditional design of a Papuan Archbishop of Melitene, Apos- State, will be here for a and td. Broad-shouldered and house, a pointed arch rising tolic Delegate to East Perth period of two to three POPE APPROVES SUGGESTION assured, quiet and with a uninterrupted from floor to West Africa arrived in months. .r smile, he held himself roof tree. Delicate young on Dec. 27. -,udiness for his great day. coconut fronds outlined the He is wearing an episcopal his from was made which don't know where the entrance, indicating a chief's ring mother's gold watch. The Rhodes' Scholar op will send me," he said. house. The walls were of late been his father's here are local bamboo, tied with vines. watchto had all the Fathers his mother for their Is -ittssionaries of the Sacred The front of the altar was gift onyx stone was The wedding. Read, but the Pope prefers hung with a native fishing the gift of His Grace's Mr. Bernard Hendrik Lochcountry of a clergy that the net, the centre decorated with brother, Mr. Peter Knox, of tenberg, a 22 -year -old engishould be taken from its own a design of flaming bird of Midland Junction. neering student at the UniVATICAN CITY, Dec. 24 (Radio, NC) --- His people. So if I wish to remain paradise plumes. Grass skirts The Archbishop's father, versity of Western Australia, a secular priest, I can do so." hung on the walls, and mats Mr. John Knox, came from was recently awarded the Holiness Pope Pius XII has approved a worldwide and from women Kilkenny, by the Robinstown Co. Represents Start woven Western Australian Rhodes Children's Day of prayer for peace in the world, to leaves carpeted the his mother, Emily Walshe, Scholarship for this year. spoke decisively, well dried saga . from Brownsford Castle, Co Mr. Lochtenberg lives with be held in May of the Marian Year. wing that he represented floor. It was Bishop Sorin's wish Kilkenny. mother at Claremont. 'rids became known with the them. =3 take the plate oil ) beginning of the Church that guest of his the was a feast be Grace should His this Papua. For this reason, for Julian's people, that they the Archbishop of Dublin re- Born at Singapore, he is a publication of an autograph discord which divides ofthem;ant subject. His father was British that decided had Bishop sent by the Holy Father that where the horror understand that this cently. He met many of his on active service with the letter ordination should take should to His Eminence Maurice Car- mosities provokes gran and ruin, was the beginning of the relations in Dublin, Watere at the village of Maino- Church in Papua. Even the ford and other parts of the Dutch army when the Japan- dlnal Felton, krehbishop of treaties of a renewed friendship reese invaded Indonesia, and the natural meeting who had recommended the may repacifl* slants and , on Julian's new country. About twenty attend- died in a Sumatran prisoner Paris, of the Mekeo, Roro and embroidery special observance. The exact establish everything In a tranin St. Kevin's of -war camp in 1945. Mass his ed white the caught chasuble order." of branultay and nullity has people, inhabiting the theme-a bird of paradise Chanel of the Pro-Cathedral. date ul the Day of Prayer Before coming to Australia al plain across from Yule escaping from "A similar appeal, distortion a broken net, Dublin, when his cousin Oliver Mr. Lochtenberg was educated not yet been announced. centre -forward in Java, Holland and the In his letter to Cardinal ately, Is atill,of vital lialellaess the Freaney, backwith in taro the leaves n is a Mekeo, like the ground to symbolise the for Dublin's football team. our days." the Pontiff der In in was written United States. He, completed reitin which other Papuan priest, Mekeo countryside. clash was one of the acolytes. Pope Plus recalled that dared. .ttesstaa thatis the he heard Louis Vangeke, M.S.C., "Our soul was freed as a Dr. Knox, Who was recently his secondary education at St. French. arms continues of had the vier he himself that ther Louis was ordained bird from the snare of the consecrated in Rome. visited Louis's Jesuit College, Clare- during the in some Minns. and for year every appealed the social and inter dagascar, and the native trappers: the snare was Ireland in 1948 and staved in mont, from 1942 to 1948. prayers f children on behalf of spirits on of captain He was dux and titoatni Car an lin seen with arr. never had o Clont He said that the need broken and we were deliv- Vernon -avenue, John mutualu Freaney. the school and did a brilliant peace. tion. his cousin Mr. sun urgent sincere ered." securing several dis- for such prayers is on this Sunday morn Knox, the area course, Archbishop added that he would and lust understanding." and today the Leaving A Priest Forever of whose jurisdiction takes in tinctions in to Pope Pius said that he "con the people, Julian's a word address personally At the universdue alders with favour" a project got up long before Presently the procession the area of Kenya terrorised examination. president of the the children of the world in to attend Mass and came walking under the by the Mau Mau, said that ity he wasClub which Intends to inspire iv last year and tilde. along the paths through arches of swaying coconut despite persecution the Chris- Engineers' in the retiring president of the Pope Pius called attention to every parish and scholastic nal grass and along the fronds. The brown -skinned tian Kikuyu tribesmen had is which he in 'Mutton the unanimous prayerappeal in their canoes, that schoolchildren led the way, remained faithful to Chris- Guild of Undergraduates. row- aItadwartime hope that the or children fon peace In an the expressed in He won blue a full nce in their unhurried followed by the Sisters in tianity. oiler a member powerful Intercession of child- world. He added that the they might be in good their white habits and pale Christian Kikuyus, he said, ing and has beencrew sae for tile rep might obtain that "wher- leg to addition of generous Then came the had been subjected to Ill- of the university Mothers carried their blue tens. toe this in children by Mikes insinnever has greed grasping in net bags slung from Papuan Little Sisters In grey treatment by non-Christian past three years. without, tention "corresponds from now on there with a demure white collar: tribesmen but, being people of So far he has won eleven ated itself,, foreheads, be love: that pardon may doubt to the great Intentions of ve Mekeo men, their then the laymen, builders, fine character, they had re- distinctions in his engineering may Injustice. the Marian rear for which na rampant supplant to graduexpects and course of the their deviate from fused to hair farmers y combed frizzy boatmen and that harmony. which brings have celled lu our recent encl. like a round, full wig, MLss i in: the Brothers, Euro- faith. The missions had sev- ate next year, having already spirits closer and strengthens elical. Pulgens Comas" with their heads held pean and Papuan, dressed eral times been attacked by sat for his final examinations .
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