MSC in the NT MSC permanently altered life/history for one of the oldest civilizations on earth. How did that go? The Missionaries At, not the absolute pinnacle of THE Church ’s Culture-power, that would be somewhere in the Dark Ages you'd imagine, but still punching at a very decent weight in the global-brain-washing stakes, the first, intrepid Catholic Missionaries arrived in the NT. Austrian Jesuits.   At this juncture, we encounter a plot-split in our story: THE Church - the immense power of the Higher-ups (backed by governments/info merchants), literal MOUs, pulling THE Levers in the background, actually the foreground.  Can't get more Plain Sight than owning the definition of Plain Sight .  Self-confessed global mind-control designers-in-chief Frontline Actors - some missionary dudes, possibly sexually-confused, who’ve sworn a vow to poverty, chastity, obedience - in return for food, board, good health care - for life. Duties include being thrust stage-Righteousness into the Top End to: civilize the natives/convert them to Catholicism I want to keep an eye on the former whilst exploring a few characters from the later.  MSC tradition demands that its order-members serve 2-years - with at least 12 months at a grass-roots mission posting before moving onto the more relaxing works of Our Lord .  These missionary postings were, by definition in the furthest-flung corners of Christian Hegemony on planet earth.   That's a nice contrast to the cushy cosplay world of the higher-ups.  it's in these communities where the nitty-gritty work of expanding global-mind-control took place -  so let’s explore that … Golden Rule for research: put yourself in someone else’s shoes - if you have any interest in understanding.  If you don't, you can safely skip that step.   In this story we have: The missionaries’ shoes; good sturdy ones, right out there on the frontiers of western civilization - living with the people they’re trying to convert - partially removed from the power wielding reaches of their superiors - & their perception of Reality The no-shoes' shoes of the Originals  Firstly, to begin with the second one, if people from 50-60k years into some dystopian future  (or robots/aliens/hybrids/what-have-yous -  if peeps are extinct) were to suddenly appear & assume control, how would i handle it?  Not great, i imagine. Especially if they told me everything that was of value, my way of life, my skills, knowledge … that was now all meaningless … useless ... here’s some deadly drugs (alcohol) to help you spiral … & oh, btw, we used-up that culture-time to wreck the planet with pollution.  Sorry.  It’s this cultural time-warp that sucked Australia’s original residents into its vortex.   Like a lot of world-altering events, it wasn't a big-bang in the beginning - it was a soft-bang   - not some explosive event - the opposite - quiet - not unobserved, but less-observed. Soft-bang ’s still become seismic in effect - just ask Covid - but it’s the slow-rising tidal wave that envelops you ... slowly, surely, then quickly, You know it's happening, but peripherally, until it's too late, you're swamped Such was the case with the appearance of MSC Aliens from the Everwhen in the Top End. The Kiddies As a wise friend once said when i asked if his new wife knew he smoked pot: Yeah, she knows ... She doesn’t know the extent … I knew MSC was involved in mission work in the NT, didn’t fathom the extent … until i started researching this. Historically, MSC has been the main religious group conducting missionary work in the NT.  That means: MSC was the face of Australia’s interaction with NT’s indigenous tribes re education, religious inculcation, assimilation.  All conducted according to government-backed policy. Pop question: What percent of adult First Nations People were converted to Christianity? Ans: zero Yeah surprised me at first, too, but when you think about it … Hi, i’m some alien guy here to spread the good news that the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus who died on the cross to save us then ascended into heaven! Yeah … no.  We're good, mate - we’ve got our own beliefs - the Everywhen Maybe that’s how the great Aussie Yeah-no thinking came into being ... ? The Jesuits, best-in-the-business at connecting to indigenous tribes - learn the language, do the Sunday mass in it, permeate into the culture, incorporate it, the whole bit - they had first crack, naturally … French Trappists, no slouches, also set up shop, separately They both gave it their best shot … then … gave up ... Abandoned their humble mission structures - said: it can’t be done … That left THE Church in a pickle.  If your stated goal is world mind-control - you can’t throw ya hands in the air coz a whole continent of First Nations humans says: yeah - no The responsibility was then delegated by the THE Church to MSC.  They didn't want it - their focus was PNG.  But you can accuse THE Church of whatever you like, you can’t accuse them of not being a disciplined hierarchy.  If you’re told to do something, then it’s like someone said to De Niro’s character in Casino, but more-so: consider it a papal bull … MSC, reluctantly, through the agency of Francis Gsell, took on the job - then, depending upon your criteria, succeeded in converting large numbers of First Nations People … The adults were still a dead-end of course, in fact trying to convert them was banned from the On-Hgher-up-ers as a waste of resources. The magic trick?: Get into the kiddies aka: the Stolen Generation (1905-67) The MSC missions in NT were the Vocational Training Camps for stolen kids. They were their main customers.  Although Govt/MSC child-stealing was officially discontinued as a policy in 1967 (lingered into the 70s, unofficially), kids taken in the 60’s would have been 11-years old through to teenagers from the mid-seventies to eighties - so that formative years impact-zone stretches into recent history.  That shit doesn't go away, btw.  Those people, now late-50+ years-old, are still dealing with the impacts ... Stolen-generation was mainly about removing mixed-blood children from their parents.  The (misguided) thinking was that in order to protect a dwindling pure-blood population from extinction, the half-castes needed to be segregated & assimilated into the White-population. But when that program was discontinued, it then became Aboriginal children in general that were brought under the protective umbrella of the Catholic Church.  Although not stolen as such, the children were offered accommodation/education at the missions where they were raised as Catholics.  In the early seventies, many adult indigenous worked on the surrounding ranches, so the missions functioned as a place where they could leave their kids whilst they were away for extended periods as cowboys or maids. As such, MSC missions would serve as a melting-pot for the children of different skin groups, united in the love of Jesus … How did that work out?  Let’s take a look … MSC Report Card The MSC higher-ups that directed the NT Aboriginal program in the 70s-80s were: Bishop John O'Loughlin (NT diocese) Father Malcolm Fyfe , Provincial Superior, Director of Catholic Education, Vicar for Missions Given their main roles were to direct the education of First Nations children, let's flip-the-script and assess the report cards of the Educators for the period they were in charge. Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse, 2007: involves both female and male victims - from the very young to adulthood is committed by non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal males of all ages – with a proportion (polite for a lot ) of assaults being committed by offenders who are themselves children has led to inter-generational cycles of offending – such that victims have subsequently become offenders and, in turn, created a further generation of victims and offenders. (P59) Ohr, that sounds: not good .  As a Legacy Report Card .  The key word above is created .  MSC created a reality that (a) didn't previously exist (b) didn't have to exist - could easily have been something else - better ... With Creation comes Responsibility.  Especially when you force your creation onto others, ban/vilify alternative approaches. For an organization whose central tenet is (a Catholic) God's creation of the world, it's worth looking at what MSC's intervention created in God's name. NT Report: (T)he Inquiry accepts that sexual abuse of Aboriginal children is common , widespread and grossly under-reported .. abuse is rife . p17 Hell!  Like Hell-on-earth-style.  For the subject of Protection of those Under-your-care , sorry John & Malcolm, gotta give you … : F If i was your father, Reverend Fathers, i’d scold you.  Don’t worry - you won’t have to drop your daks - in case you’re wondering … With combined roles of Bishop/Director of Catholic Education/Missions/Religious Superiors, you two were, in effect, Australia’s Experts-in-Chief at the coal-face of Aboriginal Affairs in the 70’s-80’s.  The executive power.  The NT , twice the size of Texas, was their O'Fyfe-dom. Their reign was marked by a culture of peak-dismissiveness of other cultures. Meanwhile back at The Ranch , rampant perversities from your own corrupted culture were being covered up like there was no tomorrow … which there wasn't for the child-victims. Not the tomorrow that was taken away from them, anyway. MSC's reign in the NT amounts to Hegemony in Action , basically, full-fledged.  Anyone questioning their S uperior wisdom - presenting relevant information, they saw that as information to be stamped out - going forward … or backwards … to be replaced with the Sacred Heart of Jesus .  Before we had algorithms to suppress truth on behalf of THE Science, we had THE Church doing it through Culture.  Both are projected as impenetrable uber-human intelligence systems - where the system is in control.  As with now though, there were/are still real people making decisions to direct the systems.   There was dissent towards Fyfe/O'Loughlin's policies, from real MSC missionary actors at the real -coal-face, living amongst the communities.  They were ignored. Shut-down.  The big-picture decisions were still made by the higher-ups. Bottom-line: Charged with transitioning/assimilating First Nations People to the Western/Catholic way of thinking, the end legacy was: an entrenched culture of child-sexual-abuse The Report emphasizes the prevalence of anal rape - & that: many sexual offenders were, in fact, children themselves .  That’s the community atmosphere MSC created for these stolen kiddies, a culture of normalized sexual violence.  With a lot of anal rape . Good job Malcolm & John.  That's on your watch. It’s way more nuanced than that, of course, we'll explore that later. In short: The missionaries were trainee priests doing their 2-years national MSC service. Upon completion, most choose the cushier school/parish/admin appointments, a rare few decide to stick with it.  Of the stick-with-its , which takes a certain type, all of them, including Leary, Burke, Pat Dodson (who we will look at in detail), conflicted with the MSC higher-ups - namely Fyfe/O’Loughlin - who overruled them. Naturally, Fyfe (who is still alive) will say when presented with this report card: Oh, i had no idea! Really? but the NT Report reports that the abuse was so rife that it leaves little room for Fyfe, who had previous form in covering up sexual abuse at Monivae College, Victoria, to again plead ignorance. NT Report: The person (victim/survivor) said that Aboriginal law had started breaking down at the time she was abused and had now deteriorated to such an extent that young children in the community were sexually abusing one another . So you’ve broken down one culture, replaced it with your child-social experiment, it’s resulted in (stolen) young children sexually abusing one another … What on God’s earth was going on in those top-end missions you were running, John & Malcolm? Daly River To get a clearer idea of what went down in the missions, we can refer to Father Tony Caruana, MSC, who did a one month relief stint at the Daly River mission in the early 80’s on his way back from a Papua New Guinea posting. This is around the time Fyfe was in charge of the Daly River mission - all the missions for that matter.  O'Loughlin, meanwhile, was a fixture as Bishop. (note: Bishop as a piece in chess was also a Catholic culture-power-play - it used to be an Elephant in the original Indian game, but THE Church saw a re-branding opportunity in the mid 1200s, juiced-up the power while it was at it. Not as momentous as the earlier BC/AD coup, but typical of the cultural Catholicisization of human thinking.) Father Caruana was interviewed for a thesis titled For the Love of God (PDF) on MSC’s NT mission work.  Caruana's observations, as an outsider, ring alarm bells … For the Love of God (Beresford-Maning): Tony Caruana .. was singularly unimpressed when he was welcomed to Daly River by a group of young girls who volunteered to ‘come home with you, Father, and look after you and give you anything you might want’. When Father Caruana declared that he would look after himself the offer was repeated, and again rejected. The girls were clearly affronted and thereafter he was ignored by the greater part of the community for the duration of his stay. Father Caruana’s refusal of their offer was based on his understanding that the girls were offering sexual favours rather than housework. (p210) (author conversation with Caruana) Was reading this the first time, thought to myself:  guess they picked the gay-one! - then thought:  no, don’t be flippant - maybe Caruana, was the one MSC with a conscience who was genuinely appalled by this off-the-rails sexualized culture happening at the missions … Let's see ... Father Caruana ` Curious, i search Father Tony Caruana MSC ...  Page 1 results:   ABC: Paedophile priest Anthony William Peter Caruana has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing boys as young as 12 at a NSW school. (Chevalier College) Caruana was convicted of 26 offences against 12 students. (He) committed his crimes when he was the school's dormitory master, rugby coach and bandmaster.  .. One of the victims was subjected to abuse of escalating severity after band practice (whereby) Caruana orally and anally raped the student and forced him to engage in sex acts while telling him: "You know God will like it if you please a man of God ." The first complaints against Caruana date back to the early 1970’s during his time at Daramalan College MSC, Canberra, before his stint at Daly River in the early 80s.  That’s now a civil case.  So to recap this unholy MSC missionary position, what have we got so far? a legacy of rampant child sexual abuse - both adult-to-children & children-to-children - who were following the example of the adults - as children do. Caruana’s welcoming at Daly River was a sexualized event involving young girls - indicating that pedophilia had become normalized at the missions. The girls were clearly affronted when Caruana rebuffed their offers - from which we can deduce they weren’t used to being knocked back by MSC males.  Subsequently, Caruana was ostracized by the community for refusing to participate - indicating an entrenched culture at the mission - not a few rogue girls Tony goes off to resume his own brand of sex-crimes at Chevalier College, which he’d first begun at Daramalan in the early ‘70’s. This shows the extent to which sexual-perversion had taken root throughout the MSC system - to the point where there were competing types of sexual abusers - something we also saw with Frith reporting on Mamo at Monivae. around the time this breakdown in morality was happening, Malcolm Fyfe was in charge of overseeing the culture at the missions The Legacy Years We brushed on the bifurcation within MSC between: The Missionaries (Leary, Burke, Dodson et al)  The Higher-ups, (Fyfe, O’Loughlin et al)  This extract throws some light on that dynamic … For the Love of God: Brother Burke recalls that he had more than one confrontation with the then-Principal of St John’s, Brother Paul Brooks on the subject of boarders.  Once the Boarding House complex was completed Brother Brooks was keen to fill it .  Brother Burke, on the other hand, maintained that simply to bring in the greatest number of Aboriginal boarders, without hand picking them, could be more of a disadvantage than an advantage. Brother Burke  .. knew that randomly to dump a concentration of Aboriginal boys from a mixture of different ‘countries’ , different languages and different skin groups together would be to ask for trouble . P330  Yeah, that makes sense - if you have someone with understanding of the situation on the ground … listen them. Especially when the other option, the chosen path by the Sacred Heart of Jesus’s higher-ups was: open-slather with a ban on cultural awareness.  Thinking being:  Aboriginal culture - it’s not real culture.  This is Big-picture assimilation stuff - we’re not here to tip-toe around.  Between the above options, i wonder if common-sense prevailed …  ?  For the Love of God:  And so, when he (Burke) was overruled , it turned out. Not only did the students often turn to fighting each other, but their presence in large numbers often deterred significant numbers of non-Indigenous Catholic students from choosing to go to St John’s.  Brother Burke recalls that at one stage, in order to minimise the vandalism and destruction being caused to the school buildings (as opposed to the boarding houses) a metal fence was erected around the boarding house with spear tipped railings . The students saw these as being ideal weapons and ripped them off the fence to use them as such. Ok.  We’ve talked about the MSC culture running off the rails - this is ripping the rails off to be used as ideal weapons. It’s hard to imagine more damning evidence of the deleterious effects of MSC’s crusading social-experiment.  Effects that resulted from a deliberate course of action -  despite frank warnings not to do it that way. It was fairly common during this period that the boarding houses themselves were routinely vandalised – and the turnover in boarding house supervisors was unsurprisingly high . Others who have worked with Indigenous students have reinforced Brother Burke’s view that they should be handpicked to optimise the value of the education they receive both for their own sakes as individuals and for the sake of their home communities. P331 I’d like to know how handy that hand-picking process was, but Brother Burke was right in that it was a disaster waiting to happen … not waiting, actually Also: Not to forget the sakes of those who inevitably ended up as collateral-damage-victims from these violent, out-of-control, laxly supervised social-experiment kids.  The ripple-out effect.  But we do forget them. The professional historian who wrote For the Love of God , forgot .   It was probably not the right time to talk about it .  Either that or: we’ve all moved on …   Those outcasts caught in this sleight-of-hand twilight-zone belong in a different book: the Not for the Love of God’s.   Good luck waiting for a Professional Historian to write that one …