The Kiddies
As a wise friend once said when i asked if his girlfriend knew he smoked pot: Yeah, she knows ... She doesn’t know the extent …
Similar to my friend's girlfriend's state, i knew MSC was involved in mission work in the NT - went to one of their boarding schools for 6 years ... but still didn’t fathom the extent …
I do now. Not fully - that's not possible - but a good-handle. Enough to know t's way, way more extensive than my friend's pot habit will ever be - can say that up-front, as a spoiler. It's like my friend turned out to be El Chapo ...
For example, here's the first research stone-turned-over: Historically, MSC has been THE Main ORG/(Religious Sect) - On-The-Planet - conducting Cultural Swamping work in the NT
Backed by: The Government (A funding pipeline MSC grew attached to. To the extent that: if there was no Aus Gov tax-dollar funding ... there'd likely be no MSC
To restate: MSC was: The Face of: Australia’s Colonizational-interaction with NT’s indigenous tribes - Tiwis & Mainlanders
A full Mind-control offensive. Front-line Actors. Including: child education, (weird) religious inculcation/cultural severance
The goal: assimilation. Conducted according to government-backed policy.
(* Technically, AI is doing it by polling everyone's every-keystroke - so it is possible. More than possible. Actual.)
Pop question: What percent of adult First Nations People were converted to Christianity by MSC?
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 us1800 years ago - 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 at proselytizing, 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. "expressed no interest". Their focus was PNG.
For the Love of God: (B)ut the MSC expressed no interest in north Australian missions located in a newly created vicariate held by a diocesan bishop.
After The Jesuits abandoned their mission, MSC agreed to fill the void with the office of an apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Victoria-Palmerston.
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, as a fledgling Order, by The Church, then it’s like someone said to De Niro’s character in Casino: Consider it a Papal-bull …
Francis Gsell was recalled from Yule Island , took on the job. Then, depending upon your criteria, succeeded in converting large numbers of First Nations People to Catholicism…
His first act in charge was a shrewd one. He did nothing. For five years. Patiently waited until the federal government formally assumed administration of NT, then only swung into action with their full-funding/backing.
Then launched The Bathurst Island Mission.
The adults were still a dead-end of course, in fact trying to convert them was banned from the Higher-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. The Church will argue that they were not stolen as such - Francis Gsell bought them with tobacco, steel (for weapons), & various trinkets. The children were then offered accommodation/education at the missions where they were raised as Catholics. In effect, the elder-system, which had run for 60k years, was severed. It was replaced with The Church.
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 …