"Like waterloo survivors": Ex-priests and the nineteenth-century Australian press
In an April 1892 edition of the 'Freeman's Journal' the editor wearily commented: 'The lecturing "ex-priests" are in Australia like Waterloo survivors. A fresh one turns up almost every month'. He was comparing the appearance in Sydney of yet another wandering and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2019, Volume: 96, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-165 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBS Australia; Oceania KDB Roman Catholic Church RB Church office; congregation RH Evangelization; Christian media |
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Catholic ex-priests
B Protestants B Waterloo, Battle of (Belgium : 1815) |
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| Summary: | In an April 1892 edition of the 'Freeman's Journal' the editor wearily commented: 'The lecturing "ex-priests" are in Australia like Waterloo survivors. A fresh one turns up almost every month'. He was comparing the appearance in Sydney of yet another wandering and lecturing ex-priest to the seemingly endless parade of Waterloo veterans turning up since the 1815 battle. As for Waterloo veterans, in 1892 they were well beyond turning up-in February of that year, reporting from the Dublin 'Freeman's Journal', the Sydney Freeman's had announced that the last of the veterans had died, and then in May that the 'very last' had expired. In the April item the editor may have been hoping that the latest ex-priest would be the last, or better still, the very last. That latest, Michael McKernan, was the first local priest to hit the lecture circuit. |
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| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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