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Third Catholic Ilni planned A new Catholic university Australia's third - is being planned for the New South Wales central coast in or near Sydney. Karl Schmude, former chief librarian at University of New England in north-eastern NSW told The Record last week that James Power snr, a well-known Brisbane entrepreneur, was "deeply involved" in the project along with Mr Schmude. The university - likely to named Campion College - is planned to open its doors in 2004 at the earliest. Australia's two existing Catholic universities are the east coast's Australian Catholic University and WM own University of Notre Dame Australia at Fremantle. St Edmund Campion was a famous English Jesuit martyred under Queen Elizabeth I during Counter-Reformation England in 1581, he said. Its curriculum would, in its early years, centre on the liberal arts and include literature, language, history, philosophy and theology as well as science studies. The planners have yet to acquire a site or buildings and the university "is very much in the proposal stage," Mr Schmude said. An initial intake of 5010 100 students was likely, and the degrees will be recognised in Australia.
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Serious injury avoided as Beagle Bay bell tower collapses at night By Peter Rosengren The quiet life of the Beagle Bal, community, a former Catholic mission on the shore of Dampier peninsula in WM far north, was shattered last week when the bell tower and front entrance to its historic Church collapsed. If the damage is not repaired before the wet season, the rest of the church could be damaged by monsoonal rains. The accident occurred during the night of 7-8 September, just one day after builders contracted to try and save the front of Sacred The collapsed bell tower at Beagle Bay. The extensive damage extended to Heart Church had inspected it the sanctuary of the church, below. together with the parish priest. Fr Eugene San. a Pallottine missionary. nappist missionaries built the church - known as a tourist landmark Australia-wide - in 1917 Beagle Bay is about 150Iuns north-east of Broome. Fr San told The Record last Friday, 8 September, the whole tower had collapsed, taking away the front entrance of the Church in the process. He said the ground-level archway of the bell tower had first collapsed on 13 August and bits and pieces had been falling to the ground since then. The Beagle Bay Church is best known for the extensive motherwell. The Church has always been of-pearl interior decoration colimportant for the community's life lected from local pearl shells and at Beagle Bay, she said: her granddraws many tourists to the isolatparents were the first couple to be ed spot each year. married in the building. Fr San said that the two builders "When you're out fishing and contracted to remove the bells returning home the tower is the from the tower and to stabilise it first thing you see as you get near," had inspected the structure the she said, adding that the visibility day before the collapse while he of the Church helped give Beagle stood at its base and held the ladBay a sense of community. der for them. "It'll never be the same, we After inspection, the builders understand that, but it'll always had decided the tower was too far be in our hearts," she said. gone to save, he said. Fr San said something would The trio had been lucky not to F r San and the tower in 1997. have to be done before the wet be killed, he said, as the tower could have collapsed at any time. the new roof to the Church, which season sets in around about OctoWhile the collapse was a blow was installed in 1999 as part of an ber or November if further severe to the community of Beagle Bay-, extensive and ongoing renovation damage to the Church was to be avoided. "If the water gets in, it'll the upside was that it had avoid- process. ed a disaster, Fr San pointed out. Leonie Cox, who was born and do a lot of damage," he said, A funeral was set for 3pm on Sat- raised at Beagle Bay said the col- adding "those bricks are like urday 9 September if the tower lapse had hit the community hard. sponges and soak the water right "We're all very sad at the up - they'd be ruined." The bricks had collapsed then, people could easily have been killed, he said. moment. It was a remarkable were made from local clay, while He had only discovered the dam- monument and a remarkable lime used in the building process age when he went to the Church work that our people did and now had been extracted form burning on Friday morning to celebrate it's collapsed. Still, she noted, the local oyster shells. He said the Church received building had stood for a very long his regular 6.30am Mass. The fall also took away part of time and served its community heritage listing in May 1998.
Mr Schmude, who was chief librarian at UNE for 18 years and is a well-known lay Catholic intellectual on the east coast, said the planned institution would be completely independent. Campion would be "a private university In the Catholic tradition," he said. The current challenge was to secure a viable funding base. Campion College would be feepaying but, he said, "a significant scholarship structure will underpin access." Campion would try to address both an educational and a religious need in its life and curriculum. Nor was the planned university trying to compete with other institutions, he said, It aimed to meet a basic educational need, "the reanimation of the liberal arts tradition, based on [Cardinal] Newman's idea of the university, but updated and modified for a different era." Mr Schmude said the two English figures - Newman and Campion - had been chosen for their obvious links with tertiary education. At the age of 1Z Campion had delivered a famous oration on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's visit with 'her court to Oxford University, where he was a promising young scholar. Among Newman's works are the famous Idea of a University, a discussion of the ideals for which a university should strive. "IguessIsee Campion and Newman as the 'Peter and Paul' of a university," Mr Schmude said.
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