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1. Societies such as the one featrured here do great work. We are in their debt.
   The late Fr Thomas Boland, acclaimed biographer of Archbishop Duhig and author of much other significant work said in 1982, 'Australian Catholics have been careless with their past. We wait until memory of our great personalities have gone to discover who and what they were)'.
   Dr Boland was a founder of the Brisbane Catholic Society.
   As a lay person, I have a suspicion that Australian Catholic history may not loom large on the seminary programs. I hope I am wrong.
   It is always sad to find that some long-established parishes (not all, some have their own vigorous history groups) have got very little of historical records.
   It is a mistake to think that full records have gone to diocesan archives (where archivists do good work).
   A lot of such records (including pictures) have gone to the rubbish tip.

   Posted By: R.M.

2. P.S The illustration for this feature - a window from St Mary's Cathedral Sydney, is very interesting.

   Posted By: R.M.

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