Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
An exploration of the Catholic Church's frontier interaction with Australia's Original inhabitants
- Culture
- MSC in the NT
- The Missionaries
- Stone-turning
- The Kiddies
- MSC Report Card
- Daly River
- Father Caruana
- The Legacy Years
- The Sacred Heart of Jesus
Culture
All great powers in history have succeeded in controlling our perception of reality - culture is the medium used to achieve this control
Time-travel
Time-travel is real - i can prove it …
Australia's Original inhabitants time-travelled from 60k year ago to the 18-19 hundreds.
Trick is: it’s not you, the human, who whisks-off through Time/Space, so much as Time/Space comes to you. It travelled to the Originals - it could travel to us from 60 k into some other dystopian future - via aliens/AI/hybrids/what-have-you - it could happen at any tick of the clock …
Time is … only a word - Anaxagoras’s Nous is a better word - but Time, as we know it, was a concept invented by western culture, which defined it by metricizing it:
1. Clocks: tick-tock-tick-tocking their seconds, minutes, hours away for Earth spinning on its axis - makes me dizzy thinking about it … Each revolution one day long - Mon-day-i-got-Fri-day-on-my-mind … We set alarm clocks to it, take it one-day-at-at-a-time, work, knock-off, make dates, eat, watch entertainment, enforce curfews, go to sleep. Spinning is The Days of our Lives. But: Seven days do not a weeketh make. Weeks, months, years, centuries - the higher-ups - that’s a different force of physics entirely …
2. Calendars: 30 Days have September April June & November - all the rest have 31, excepting February … which is a weird fucking month, that should be banned. Calendars are Earth’s lap-times (sensational ones) - calculated according to our revolvement around Sun. Which is a bloody long way. 900 million k’s. Btw, don’t be late. Meanwhile, Sun is also revolving around the centre of the galaxy at galactic speed - ends up you're doing 2mil+ k - sitting on the couch. (If only we could travel that speed in a different direction … you could get to Mars in 30 minutes)
There are two types of humans:
1. Spinners (tree-thinkers - people caught in the daily grind - the minutiae )
2. Revolvers (forests - transcendentalists - big picture thinkers)
That’s crap. I made that up, but spectrum-wise - we have both inside us, one is more, less, or so-so, emphasized. It also fluctuates within us.
Spinning - revolving - both dizzying - are (funda) mental-input-forces acting on us. It’s like, not like, it is, going on two different, scary rides at the Amusement Park at the End of the Universe - happening at insane speeds - at the same time … perpetually … That’s gotta do ya fucking head in … surely …
It doesn’t somehow. Sends you 'round the bend, literally - in a circular motion, it’s all bending - but it’s also the state we blithely exist in. I’m doing it now: typing at millions of k an hour whilst spinning like a top …! Feels slower though. Slow as a snail. I wish i could go faster … Sometimes i do have a spinning feeling when i stand up too quick, so that’s something.
But does it matter? We're accustomed to it - it's innate - we don't feel it - who cares?
Ignore it, carry on is what the experts advise. Understanding beyond that ... ? Does Time even exist as a fundamental of the Universe? I think not. It's a by-product of something else. At best it's a misnomer. Nous or Consciousness gets you a lot closer to the origin of existence than Time ever will
Clocks/Calendars are empirical measurements - they don’t capture Time/Nous’s essence .. they downstream-register its existence on a machine: that’s all
The Originals had a good way of looking at it: the Everywhen
Everything that has happened or will happen or could have happened … but didn’t … wells from the Everywhen … or doesn’t …
One fine day, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a breed-unto-themselves, welled up …
When these universes entwined, the Missionaries assumed the position of the Aliens from the Everywhen - come to Save us in the name of Jesus & The Blessed Virgin.
This book is a look at what happens when Cultures time-travel/collide ...
Culture
Apart from clocks & calendars, there’s another way to register Time/Nous/Whatever’s presence: Culture
But got stuck on one-fucking-word: Culture
It’s central to the MSC story, but what is it? What does it mean? Define your terms …
First there are different levels. You can talk about the Shin Boner Spirit culture at the North Melbourne Football Club - or a full-anthropological immersion into an indigenous buluo - you'll find a lot of difference - that difference is the beauty - but there will still be an arrangement of celebrated values & meaningful participation in both those communities that connects with its members. Culture is that connective stuff.
That's all great, but it led to thinking about Culture as a stand-alone Thing. It results in a pattern - a spectrum - a primary wave/particle influence - that all us humans experience. It's powerful as fuck ... So what is it - when it's stripped back to its core?
By the time i got through - well i didn’t get through - but four weeks later i realized i had 4-5 pages about Culture - which is fascinating - but it’s a different book, mate - we’re doing this one - on MSC's influence on NT indigenous people - we need one page max - otherwise it will block the flow of the story. Park it.
But …
Put it in bullet points if you have to - one page or less - on my desk by tomorrow)
Culture, as a force, is ...
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Thought: Made from Thought - that’s its primary constituent - which, according to its FB-page, is currently in a Chicken n Egg relationship with Action
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dynamic library of accumulated consciousness: a recording of observed manifestations of human reality - i.e History. As with clocks/calendars, it is a measurement of Time. We measure ourselves against it - it measures us, shapes us. It can also bend Time
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communal mental-image: that amounts to an interactive mind-computer-game - with rules - generated by people. But culture is not a real person as such - similar, but different, a virtual version of a real one. Reality is the interface image between perception/projection
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living entity: same as any other bio-mass - follows the laws of DNA - wants to exist - extend. To that end - it consumes. To do that efficiently, it cooperates, organizes - forms functional societies - same way cells do - except it doesn’t die like we do ...
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manipulatable commodity: which has currency - human power. If there was no culture, there’d be no power. Culture is the magic ingredient that makes the metaphysical world go round. Cultural influence is a finite commodity. The more it is centralized, the less influence the individual has - & vice verca - it's an inverse relationship.
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two-way street: if Culture’s Dynamic is functioning healthfully, it influences you - but you can influence its arse back. The Taiwanese indigenous buluo community is one good example - traditional & modern versions - where the village has real power. It was under attack by Big-culture - fought through it in the 1990s - still going strong today. It’s also at the heart of Aristotle’s polis thinking - the first anti-globalist - he knew the dangers of power centralization having lived in the time of Alexander the Great. The ideal state, Aristotle said, is one encompassed by the range of the town-crier’s voice. That way, if you’ve got a good idea, or a helping hand, or a grievance, you can input it meaningfully into your culture . Try doing that in the New Normal - see how you get along. Indigenous (& non) communities, self-sustaining ones, are vestiges of Aristotle’s polis. If the power/internet goes off in a drawn out war, which it will, these communities will come roaring back into style
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eternal God: outlives us all - true life after death
Manipulation
Of the above, the manipulatable characteristic of Culture is the most pertinent to our story.
There are periods in history, long-ones, where: whoppers told by those with the cultural clout to make them come true … came true … ! Cultural Influencers succeeded in track-jumping Reality onto a non-Truth, alternative universe. Anthrax/Iraq War 2 is one (non-contentious?) example - but there are many others - bigger ones - we'll get there shortly.
That raises some questions:
If Culture can exert mass influence on its human components to create a fake reality, are we living in a Lie-averse, an Unreality?
What happens to the real Reality/Time/Future - that was hi-jacked?
Does that still exist? In some parallel mode? Can we re-connect? Or: that's all gone now ...?
In the culture/time equation, the idea that progression = enlightenment … it's not like that. Yes Time/Nous can travel towards the light, but also sideways, backwards, into darkness … It’s not a fixed-deal … well it isn’t, ... until it is.
Fixing the deal in an interactive game-world is the goal. It's in our DNA to do that. The more you fix it, the better. Moreover, it’s a War - against Whoever-you-project-to-be-a-threat. If you control the Cultural Image of Reality, you control everything, including Time, whatever that means … you get to decide.
Therein lies Culture's time-travelling trick. Orwell puts it best in 1984 (written 1948):
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past
Jesus Culture is a good example of how that works - at scale.
Jesus Time
Time is divided into BC - Before Christ - then AD - After Christ. How many people managed to get Time segregated from the day they were born …?
A few, Sun-Yat-sen, not many, been tried, there are epochs, dynasties, but one time to rule them all … invariably you get usurped. Jesus Time was a usurpation of Founding of Rome Time - which was already at 1278 when it got got by The Church (in 525 AD). Meaning the year now should be/would be 2775 ...
See, i told you time-travel is possible! The other thing is that the Founding of Rome was a human endeavour - not an individual that can be deified - like Jesus was: born of the Blessed Virgin, crucified for our sins, then, miraculously, ascended into Heaven on the Third Day. From where God the Son watches us … with God the Father & God the Holy Ghost.
Jesus didn’t alter Time himself of course - that came much, much later - 500 odd years later, with the advent of hierarchical religion. Organized global mind-control - self-described - on a mission to convert the world to the Catholic way of thinking. High Priest interpreters of the secret higher-truth began curating/enforcing a manufactured version of Reality - backed by money, military-muscle.
Jesus Time was a stroke of cultural genius - brainchild of Dionysius Exiguus, a Catholic monk, aka Denis The Little. Dionysius was a mathematician/influencer at a point in history when THE Church was already the dominant cultural influence. He saw an MOU opening in Time-branding: next-level entrenchment of Catholicism - whilst accelerating his own pocket-rocket rise through the ranks of that all-powerful universe.
This Time-coup was shepherded through by Pope/Saint John I. Became canon law.
Four years after the BC/AD Papal Decree, philosophy was banned by THE Church in 529 because it: conflicted with Christianity (AC Grayling, History of Philosophy) So having stolen select tenets from Anaxagoras, Aristotle et al, re the existence of a primary universal force, then twisted that to fit its own designs, THE Church, like a ruthless mafia boss, began psychotically eliminating those who knew too much:
We don’t need more enquiries into the origin of existence, the nature of reality, or ethics - we’ve definitively decided all that - we've moved on. Any further discussion on the topic will only undermine our authority.
Welcome to the fifth-century, Ladies & Gentlemen, the dawn … doesn’t sound right … of the Dark Ages! The Downside-up World … A Time-warped world.
The mid-500’s were sliding doors years. When those doors ground shut, with THE Church left with Totalitarian control over western Culture, it was 900 years of Darkness in the dungeons for poor old humanity. I'm not convinced we've yet emerged - we did - but then THE Science dragged us back in ...
It's a reminder for people today - when you surrender human rights to the mind-control experts due to God , THE Science, THE Economy, THE Algorithm, or … whatever … don’t think you’re gonna get em back a few years later in the New Normal …
Once Totalitarianism gets a cultural grip on the script … you’re fucked. That’s why they call it Total. It’s devilishly hard to break free when you’re imprisoned by the cultural plot.
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 Catholic Missionaries arrived in the NT. Austrian Jesuits. Famously intrepid dudes ...
It's at this juncture, we encounter a plot-split in our story:
- THE Church - literal MOUs - the most powerful ORG in the history of Western Civilization Global Mind-controllers - since 500 AD - by their own admission. Admission is not even the right word - Mission is though - fully stated up front
- Frontline Actors - some missionary dudes, potentially sexually-confused, who’ve sworn a vow to poverty, chastity, obedience - in return for food, board, good health care - for life. Rookie 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. But 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 your subject's shoes - if you have any interest in understanding what happened, why they acted in the way they did. In this story we have:
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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
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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, then you're swamped by it.
Such was the case with the appearance of MSC Aliens from the Everwhen in the Top End.
Stone-turning
(Under construction)
The Kiddies
Under construction
MSC Report Card
(under construction)
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)
Whilst reading this first time, thought 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
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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, MSC) 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."
Judge Robyn Tupman: These boys were entrusted to the school and the care of teachers and priests like this offender and he abused that trust by sexually assaulting them.
Each of the offences was committed in circumstances where the offender had a special duty to each of these young boys. These boys were entrusted to the school and the care of teachers and priests like this offender.
ABC: Judge Tupman said all the victims suffered lasting psychological and emotional trauma.
She said Caruana even contacted the mother of one of his victims to tell her about her son's behavioural issues while he was abusing him.
Students who tried to tell their parents and the school about the abuse were not believed.
SMH: She also noted that “a complaint made about his behaviour while he was teaching at Daramalan College in the early 1970s which gave rise to a civil action against him”.
Judge Tupman said there was no further detail before the court on that action, and no indication any criminal proceedings arose as a result. But following the complaint, Caruana spent three years in Papua New Guinea before returning to teach at Australian schools.
Firstly, classic MSC/The Church. Judge Tupman is implying that he was sent to PNG as a result of the complaint at Daramalan, MSC in the early 70s. Without being able to verify that exactly, it fits neatly into MSC/The Church's standard operating procedure (as documented in the RC), that when a complaint about sexual misconduct is received, they immediately go into cover-up mode & start shunting offenders around their parishes.
But to put that aside for the time being, it at least gives us a timeline to work with re Caruana's report on the sexualized nature of children at the Daly River mission.
Sent to PNG for three years, after complaint(s) in the early 70s - that puts him in Daly River for his one month stint (when returning for a break from PNG) in the early to mid 70s. Let's say 1973-75.
(As Brother Burke, who arrived in the NT just before Cyclone Tracy hit on Christmas Eve 1974, noted, 1975 was a very interesting year. (p327)
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 allegedly first begun at Daramalan in the early ‘70’s. Which 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/Fyfe reporting on Mamo at Monivae
- around the time this breakdown in morality was happening, Father Malcolm Fyfe & Bishop O'Loughlin were in charge of overseeing the culture at the missions - & ignoring advice from their own missionaries on the front-line
Interestingly, in the case of Beresford-Manning's puff-piece on MSC missionary activity in the NT, she was granted access to the Kensington Archives in Sydney, but banned, by Father Tim Brennan (p419), from accessing the NT archives. Her guide was none other than Father Caruana, who she praised, noting that:
(A)rchivist, Father Tony Caruana MSC, was most helpful in locating material pertaining to Daly River in particular and the Northern Territory in general.
To be fair, she published in 2008, before Caruana's sex crime spree was known to the wider world outside MSC.
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 to 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 end up as collateral-damage-victims from these violent, out-of-control, laxly supervised social-experiment kids. The ripple-out effect. But ORGS do forget them. That's the primary program - protect The Image at all costs. Culpable mistakes are to be erased, forgotten ... ... then we all move on ...
Wendy Elizabeth Beresford-Manning, who wrote For the Love of God, forgot. As you would.
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 …
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
What does that even mean?
Who are we?
Jules Chevalier
Under construction