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First priests
• not all Catholics in the early settlement were practicing Catholics
• Priests and sacraments were readily available
• It was not till the 1800 that the first Catholic priests arrived in the colony and they arrived as convicts
• James Dixon- had conditional freedom to perform Mass but lost privilege after cast hill rebellion
• Father John Joseph Therry & Philip Connolly chaplains appointed by government in London 1820
• This arrival is regarded as the formal establishment of the catholic ch -
first bishop
• John Bede Polding
• Polding’s priests were mainly Irish – there was a conflict between Polding’s vision and their ideas
• Irish clergy dominated Australia Catholic life until very recently
• 1930’s Australian born priests outnumbered them -
The growth of religious orders
• Those already in Australia
• The sister of charity
• The good Samaritans sisters
• The sister of st joseph (1866-founded by fr Julian tennison woods and mary mckollip) -
catholic schooling
• Nuns ran them
• Only the rich people went there
• They were all Catholics
• Government funding
• By 1833 there were about 10 catholic schools in the country
• 1833-end of-1860’s- Catholics schools had some government assistance
• 1872-1893- all states passed education acts removing state aid -
Irish and english priest
In the 1930's english catholic priest outmubered the Irish priest -
post-war era
Catholics increase (baby boomers),
• Numbers of brothers, nuns and priest also increases
• Catholics improved there socio-economic status
• High level of attendance at mass
• Many Catholics belonged to Catholic groups
• Devotion to the rosary was common -
change
• 1960 And 1970 influx of non-English speaking immigrants
• Ideas and practices came into conflict with Irish background
• The solution was the priests from origins recruited and new schools/ churches were built