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A resilient faith that withstands the trials of Western Australia and the turmoils within the Church is the lesson that emerges from the latest History of the Church in Western Australia. While pioneers struggled money, mainly through try - locals did not stand a and at times doubted whe- ing to own a newspaper. chance against the onrush ther the colony would surThe two men are by no of the colony if no one vise some of its economic means the history of the was going to teach them crises, Catholics, too, had local Church, but they are how to survive. to make their way from the the signs against which the Around New Norcia bottom, gradually carving resilience of the people is there would be a farming out a heritage that is the seen. community along classic Catholic Church of WA in European lines. 1979. LITTLE PEOPLE WITH In the Smith -West, there The story is told in a FAITH would be havens for their book launched this week in protection. GosIt is of the the the presence story of tiny ernor. Sir Wallace Kyle people. with enormous In the North, there would Sir faith, Premier, pitting themselves he tracts of pastoral counand the Charles Court. as a Cath- against surroundings which try laid out for their heneolic contribution to the would have been unimag- fit. State's 150th anniversary. inable in the countries It is the story too often from which they came. forgotten and this volume FIRST TIME It made no difference will record the fact, if only The book is the work of whether they were being the outline, that still awaits Vincentian Father D. F. sent off to Albany or Dar- a full treatment. Bourke, who was asked by win to start a mission. (SEE ALSO PAGES 2, 31 Archbishop Goody to unAs the settlers move into dertake the task at the be- the hinterland, the lonely ginning of last year and Catholic families are scatwho saw his manuscript in tered there too, being visithe hands of the printer at ted by travelling Benedict. ines and others whose Engthe end of December. The book gives, for the lish is poor but who keep first time, the full account the faith of the people alive. The early Church of of the failures of two of the most remarkable men WA, not unlike the Church in WA Catholic history, of 1979, is not necessarily both of them bishops. Irish. The one, Bishop John The first bishop, alBrady, by a strange turn though an Irishman, is of fate brings in one sweep more at ease speaking to the shores of Australia French. Also there are Spaniards, the ageless Benedictine Order and the youne congre- French. Belgians, Italians, gation of the Sisters of English all spending their Mercy, fourded a mere 15 energies weeks, and months often without contact with years previously. Yet within six years the their brethren. bishop is to leave WA. reThe concern for the lieved of his office and a Aborigines is the driving trail of dispute and petty force behind many of their areument in his wake. efforts, The other. the imrressive Western civilisation can figure of B'shon Gibney, debate its guilt feelings the father of the present about what should or day Church of WA, also should not have been done ends his long and wide- for the Aborigines. ranging apostolate because The early Catholic misin the end he ran out of sionaries saw that the poor
History launched The History of the Catholic Church was launched on Wednesday evening in the hall of the Coeval of Mercy, Victoria Square, that stands on bad Nest closely associated with the beginnings of the Church in WA. ABOVE, the author, Father D. F. BOURKE is pictured discussing the book with the governor Sir Wallace KYLE who launched the book officially, and was later supported by the Premier, Sir Charles COURT, and Archbishop GOODY. Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Perth, the history is nevertheless a chronicle of the Church throughout the State. Key figures in WA Catholic history are the Benedictine monks, famous for their foundation at New Norcia and later the mission at Kalumburu.
AT LEFT, Abbot ROONEY is pichinid reviewing
the hook with Bishop F. X. THOMAS of 43eraldton.
Sparse though the distances were the diocese of Geraldton figures prominently in the history because of the inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking efforts to establish Catholic communities in the now dormant mining centres,
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