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THE BATTLE FOR THE TERRITORY MISSION Every Catholic newspaper in Australia today will publish the first grim chapter
of the Catholic mission in the 500,000 square miles of the Northern Territory.
of the plight
This is the story of an heroic effort by a small group of men and women - priests, religious and laity under their courageous Bishop, John P. O'Loughlin, M.S.C. -to build a living church in the dead heart of the continent. Enduring climatic conditions that test the stamina of even the strongest, often reduced to eating strange native foods, battling against ignorance, superstition and even the witchcraft of "medicine men," the missionaries of the Northern Territory hove one of the most frustrating and materially unrewarding tasks in the world. Seven years of drought in Central Australia and disastrous floods in northern rivers have aggravated problems for all concerned with the future of the Territory -but especially for the missionaries. For years, Bishop O'Loughlin has been striving to erect a modest Cathedral at Darwin, Australia's northern gateway. Stone upon stone, it is being built by religious and lay missionaries because the resources of the diocese are not sufficient to pay ordinary tradesmen. To feed the hungry Australian native people, to clothe the naked, to nurse the sick (including hundreds of lepers), to educate thousands of young black Australians and provide a decent future for them, to bring the Sacraments to the six thousand Catholics scattered over this vast wilderness this is the challenge, that confronts the Bishop of Darwin. his 33 priests, 56 religious Sisters and 15 religious brothers, and a small but growing band of devoted lay missionaries. Never before in this country was such a small and poorly equipped army confronted by such a tremen-
the hierarchy's appeal to the Catholic people. "SUCCESSFUL APPEAL" Two years ago a similar appeal was made on behalf of the Kimberley mission in the far north-west. Stirred by the revelations of poverty and heroic sacrifice on the part of the missionaries, the Australian people responded with an amazing burst of generosity.
Nearly £70,000 was subscribed in a few weeks. With this money the Kimberley Mission was saved. Aborigine settlements were reconstructed and decent living quarters provided for the missionaries.
Vatican City: National societies for the propagation of the Faith contributed almost fA10,899,000 to the missions in 1961, according to official figures released here. The total reported by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith during the annual meeting of the national directors of mission aid societies represents an increase of more than £A720,000 over the amcunt collected in 1960.
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Transport was provided for the priests on their endless journeys. A property was purchased to train young men in modern stock -breeding and agricultural methods and to help make the mission self-supporting. You, the Catholic people of Australia did all this two years ago. Have you missed the money you gave so generously to the Kimberlcys? If you are not better off today than you were in 1960. then forget this appeal. It is not directed to you. But if you are better off, then the Archbishops and Bishops of Australia ask you to do for Bishop O'Loughlin in the Northern Territory what you did for Bishop Jobst in the Kimberleys.
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Bishop O'Loughlin and his clerk of works, John Darcy in Darwin's new cathedral. The window is the first in stained glass designed and made by an Australian born craftsman.
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dous Task. When Bishop O'Loughlin reported on his mission at the last meeting of the Archbishops and Bishops of Australia, there was an immediate response. The Catholic people of Australia must be told Every Bishop in his own diocese would sponsor an appeal for the Northern Territory Mission and the diocesan newspapers of Australia would be entrusted with the task of carrying
Good Increase
OUR OFFERINGS TO ROME COLLEGE
BENEFIT TO US On May 17, the Holy Father granted an au-
dience to the National Directors of Pontifical Missionary Organisations. Present also at the audience were officials of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith together with the staff and students of the Pontifical Urban College. In the course of the audience, t h e Holy Father blessed the foundation stone of the new extensions to the Pontifical Urban College, which will provide accommodation for seminarians studying philosophy. In the course of his address, the Pope said that this blessing marked a new pro cress. "It represents a house which is becoming bigger in order to welcome the
ever-increasing number of sons," said the Holy Father. The initiative of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in extending the College has received the wholehearted support of the Hierarchy of Australia. Some £80,000 is being given for the new building. In addition, there have been numerous generous contributions from the many past students of the College among the Australian 'jergy. Speaking to the Apostolic Delegate. Archbishop de Furstenberg, whilst he was in Rome, Ordinal Agagianian said that he had been greatly encouraged by the support that the project had received from the east students of the College in Australia. For the Church in Australia, the new building will be a great blessing. When it is completed many more places at the Pontifical College will be reserved for seminarians from Australia and New Zealand.
Priest Is Shot After Mass IN ALGIERS, a local parish priest was shot and killed
on emering from offering Mass in his church. He was Father Vincent Therer, who less than a week earlier had joined 31 others priests in a public appeal calling on the Catholics of the Algerian capital to work for peace and brotherhood. Father Therer was a Bel- responded by slaying 93 gian priest of the Namur Moslems in the next two diocese who had been work- days. Five more Europeans ing in Algeria for several were also slain. years. The priests in their maniHis murder took place in front of his church at Bir- festo had implored their and t h e i r mandreis, on the edge of parishioners to remain faithful to town. Father Therer had friends the demands of the Gospel just offered Mass, and was and honour the name Chrisabout to get in his car, They urged all Alparked in front of the tian. gerians to live together church. A second car sudpeacefully and work todenly pulled abreast. Five gether for the common good. shots rang out. The priest They also voiced their crumbled to the ground, complete unity of mind and shot through the head. heart with His Holiness the The terrorists' car sped away, and no witnesses Pope and Archbishop Leon dared to say whether the Etienne Duval of Algiers murderers were Europeans who have both repeatedly urged a return to brotheror Moslems. The public appeal in which
Father Therer had joined only a few days earlier was issued as European extremists sympathetic to the goals of the outlawed right-wing Secret Army Orgzanisation had stepped up their mass slaughter of Moslems in the city. Moslem gunmen killed 17 Europeans on May 14, and the European terrorists
hood to end the bloodshed in Algeria. Moslem spokesmen asserted that the assassination of Father Therer could not possibly have been perpetrated by the Moslem side. But Europeans cited the fact that Moslems had profaned the priest's church and sacked his rectory only a few weeks
earlier.
The farmhouse which was the birthplace and early home of the holy Cure of Ars has been restored and turned into a shrine. At the inauguration ceremony, relatives of the saint carried a reliquary enshrining his remains. Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyons, presided. Several other prelates came for the opening. St. John Mary Vianney, who won fame in his lifetime as parish priest of the village of Ars, was born at the farm at Dardilly on May 8, 1786. He died on August 4, 1859.
Church authorities responsible for the restoration have tried to respect the original appearance of the farm in the Chantemerle Valley, several miles northwest of Lyons. Still intact are the sheepcote where the fouryear -old John would pray, the clock at whose foot he made his first confession at the age of 11, while the anti Church persecutions of the French Revolution raged, and the family table where the holy beggar, St. Benedict Joseph Labre, was given food.
Part of the second floor of the farmhouse has been converted into a museum, and two chapels have been installed on the same floor to enable priest-pilgrims to say Mass in the saint's birthplace.
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