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레오 14세 교황은 교황 직무 시작 미사에 참례한 스페인 국왕 부부에게 진심 어린 감사를 전했고, 스페인 총리는 교황에게 스페인 방문을 초청했다.

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레오 14세 교황은 2025년 6월 12일 바오로 6세 홀에서 로마 교구 사제들을 만났다. 교황은 폭력으로 점철된 시대와 빈곤, 주택난으로 어려움을 겪고 있는 로마에서 함께 걸으며 각자 성소의 불꽃을 되찾자고 권고했다. 교황은 “사제는 친교의 사람으로 부름받았으며, 겸손한 삶 안에서 복음의 새롭게 하는 힘을 드러낼 수 있는 증인”이라고 강조했다.

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교황청 공보실 마태오 브루니 국장이 최근 레오 14세 교황에 의해 중국 푸저우대교구 보좌주교로 임명된 린윈퇀 요셉 주교가 중국 정부로부터 민법상 승인을 받고 취임했다고 밝혔다. 교황청은 이를 “교황청과 중국 당국 간 대화가 거둔 의미 있는 성과”라고 평가했다.

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레오 14세 교황은 교황 재위 시작 이후 네 번째로 열린 수요 일반알현(2025년 6월 11일)에서 눈먼 거지 바르티매오의 이야기를 중심으로 교리 교육을 진행했다. 교황은 마르코 복음을 통해 “길을 잃고 헤맬 때조차 희망의 끈을 놓아서는 안 된다”며, 예수님을 향한 간절한 외침은 반드시 응답을 받는다고 강조했다.

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레오 14세 교황은 오는 6월 22일 성 요한 라테라노 대성전 광장에서 ‘지극히 거룩하신 그리스도의 성체 성혈 대축일’ 미사를 거행한다. 이어 성모 마리아 대성전으로 향하는 성체 행렬이 이어질 예정이다.

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레오 14세 교황께서는 6월 11일 안토니우 구테흐스 유엔 사무총장을 만나셨다.

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레오 14세 교황이 6월 10일 성좌 희년 행사를 위해 바티칸을 방문한 교황대사들을 만났다. 교황은 그들의 사명이 세상에서 “베드로의 시선”이 되고 “모든 것을 기꺼이 감당할 각오가 된” 그리스도의 사랑을 증언하며 “하느님을 믿을 거룩한 권리”를 지켜주는 것이라고 일깨웠다. 이는 베드로의 후계자와 지역 주교들과의 친교 안에서 이뤄야할 사명이다.

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6월 15일 이탈리아 로마의 성 바오로 대성전에서 한 젊은 순교자의 시복식이 거행된다. 주인공은 산 에지디오 공동체 회원이었던 콩고 청년 플로리베르 브와나 추이 빈 코시티다. 그는 부패 척결을 위해 목숨을 바친 26세 젊은이로, 교황청 시성부 장관 마르첼로 세메라로 추기경의 집전으로 복자품에 오른다.

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지난 5월 8일 베드로 사도의 새로운 후계자로 레오 14세 교황이 선출되자, 바티칸 미디어가 특별한 다큐멘터리 한 편을 세상에 내놓았다. 바로 로버트 프랜시스 프레보스트 추기경의 페루 선교 발자취를 생생히 담아낸 작품이다. 이 귀한 영상은 머지않아 바티칸 미디어 채널을 통해 전 세계 신자들과 만날 예정이다.

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마리아의 모성은 십자가에서 생겨났다. 교회의 풍요로움, 교회를 이끄는 베드로좌의 거룩함도 십자가 없이 생각할 수 없다. 레오 14세 교황이 6월 9일 교회의 어머니 복되신 동정 마리아 기념일에 성 베드로 대성전에서 교황청 희년 미사를 집전하며 이 같은 주제로 강론했다. 이 미사에는 5000여명의 신자들이 참례했다. 교황은 강론을 통해 교회를 섬기는 가장 좋은 방법이 “우리 각자 자신의 신분과 자신이 맡은 책임에 따라 성인이 되는 것”이라고 일깨웠다.

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레오 14세 교황이 6월 7일 사도궁 클레멘스 홀에서 “니케아와 제삼천년기 교회: 가톨릭-정교회 일치를 향하여” 주제로 열린 심포지엄(6월 4-7일) 참가자들을 만났다. 이 자리에서 교황은 지낼 부활절을 공동으로 기념하고자 하는 의지를 재확인하고 일치는 성령의 활동을 통해 받은 은총임을 강조했다.

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레오 14세 교황은 6월 8일 성령 강림 대축일 삼종기도에서 평화의 은총을 간절히 청했다. “오직 평화로운 마음만이 가정과 사회, 그리고 국제관계에 참된 평화를 퍼뜨릴 수 있습니다.” 교황은 세상의 지도자들이 “긴장 완화와 대화를 위한 용기 있는 행동”에 나서도록 간구했다. 이어 젊은이들과 모든 학생, 그리고 교수들, “특히 며칠 후 학업 과정을 마무리하기 위해 졸업 시험을 앞둔 학생들”에게 격려의 마음을 보냈다.

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레오 14세 교황이 6월 8일 성령 강림 대축일에 ‘교회 운동 단체들, 자선 단체들, 신설 공동체들의 희년’ 행사를 마무리하는 미사를 거행했다. 강론에서 교황은 위로자 성령께서 “우리 안”, “우리 관계”, “민족들 사이”의 경계를 허물고 개인주의에 맞서며, 타인을 지배하려는 의지와 폭력으로 이어지는 태도를 변화시켜 형제애를 이루도록 돕는다고 말했다. 교황은 특히 최근 발생하는 여성 살해 사건을 언급하며 성령께서 무관심의 장벽을 허물고 우리를 형제애로 이끈다고 강조했다.

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레오 14세 교황께서는 성령 강림 대축일 전야, 교회 운동들, 단체들, 새로운 공동체 구성원들 약 칠 만명이 모인 성 베드로 광장에서 그들과 인사를 나누시며 강론을 하셨다.

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교황 성하께서는 교회 운동들과 단체들의 책임자 및 관계자들의 희년을 맞아 사도궁에서 이들을 접견하셨으며 이 자리에서 그 역할의 중요성을 강조하셨다.

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6월 7일, 교황 레오 14세께서는 아르헨티나 공화국 밀레이 대통령을 사도궁에서 접견하셨다.

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레오 14세 교황 성하께서는 오늘 유럽 평의회 의장을 바티칸에서 만나셨다.

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6월 6일, 교황 레오 14세께서는 이탈리아 공화국 마타렐라 대통령을 사도궁에서 접견하셨다.

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교황청 국무원 총리 피에트로 파롤린 추기경이 이탈리아 일간지 ‘라 스탐파’와의 인터뷰에서 가자지구에서 벌어지고 있는 “끔찍한 인도적 비극” 앞에서 “인도적 지원에 대한 봉쇄를 하루빨리 해제해야 한다”고 촉구했다. 아울러 우크라이나에서는 “그 누구에게도 모욕을 주지 않으면서 모든 이의 존엄성을 지켜주는” 평화를 위해 노력해야 한다고 말했다. 또한 유럽의 군비경쟁이 불안정을 조장하고 있다면서 “군축을 위한 평화로운 동력을 위해 조율된 노력을 이어가는 것이 시급하다”고 강조했다.

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오늘 2025년 6월 5일 오전, 사도궁 클레멘스 홀에서 교황 레오 14세와 국무원 근무자들의 만남이 있었다. 이 만남은 먼저 국무원 총리 피에트로 파롤린 추기경의 인사말로 시작되었고 그 다음 교황 성하의 연설로 이어졌다.

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성좌 공보실장은 오후[6월 4일: 로마 기준]에 있었던 전화 통화를 확인했다. 교황께서는 러시아가 평화 촉진을 위한 조치를 취할 것을 촉구했으며, 분쟁 해결을 위해 양측의 대화가 중요함을 강조하셨다.

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교황성하께서는 일반알현에서 어두운 순간에서도 인생의 의미는 주님의 부르심에 응답하면서 찾을 수 있다고 권고하셨다.

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레오 14세 교황이 루이지 카르보네 박사를 바티칸 보건위생국 국장으로 임명했다. 카르보네 박사는 바티칸시국 내 공중 위생과 보건을 담당하는 보건위생국의 부국장으로 재직해 왔다.

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레오 14세 교황이 복자 율리우 호쑤 추기경을 기억하며, 제2차 세계대전 중 유다인들을 목숨 걸고 보호한 그의 숭고한 행적과 공산주의 철권통치 아래서도 꺾이지 않았던 그의 불굴의 신앙을 되새겼다.

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168년 전 봄날, 롬바르디아의 고요한 마을 데시오에서 한 아이가 태어났다. 아킬레 라티라는 이름으로 세상에 온 그 아이는 훗날 전체주의 광풍이 유럽을 휩쓸던 시대에 평화의 등불을 밝힌 비오 11세 교황이 된다. 그의 고향에서 펼쳐지는 “교황들의 희년” 프로젝트는 단순한 회고전을 넘어선다. 프란체스코 탈리아부에가 정성껏 직조해낸 이 멀티미디어 서사는 한 인간의 영적 여정이 어떻게 세계사의 물줄기를 바꾸었는지를 보여준다. 개막의 그 순간, 다리오 에도아르도 비가노 몬시뇰의 목소리가 울려 퍼졌다. “비오 11세와 커뮤니케이션: 1925년과 1933년 희년의 주역”이라는 제목 아래, 한 교황이 새로운 시대의 언어로 영원한 진리를 전하려 했던 열정적 시도가 펼쳐진다.

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교황청 성직자부 장관 유흥식 라자로 추기경이 5월 31일 프랑스 아르스 성지에서 거행된 성 요한 마리아 비안네 신부의 시성 100주년 기념 미사를 위해 영상 메시지를 보냈다. “사랑하는 사제 여러분, 약한 모습을 부끄러워하지 마십시오. 사람들이 여러분을 늘 이해해주지 않더라도 두려워하지 마십시오.”

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레오 14세 교황이 5월 31일 복되신 동정 마리아의 방문 축일에 성 베드로 대성전에서 로마교구 소속 11명 부제의 사제 서품 미사를 주례했다. 교황은 하느님 백성이 “우리가 보는 것보다 훨씬 더 많기” 때문에, 새 사제들에게 “신자들과 모든 피조물을 위한 자리를 내어주라”고 당부했다.

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레오 14세 교황은 6월 1일 ‘가정의 희년’ 미사를 마치는 부활 제7주일(주님 승천 대축일) 삼종기도에서 평화를 청하고, “복음을 받아들이고 전파하는 작은 가정 교회들”에 감사 인사를 전했다. 아울러 홍보주일을 맞아 언론 매체들에 “메시지의 윤리적 가치”를 보장할 것을 권고하고, 지난 5월 31일 폴란드에서 거행된 1945년에 순교한 수녀들의 시복식을 언급했다.

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레오 14세 교황이 6월 1일 성 베드로 광장에서 부활 제7주일 미사를 봉헌하며 ‘가정, 어린이, 조부모, 노인들의 희년’ 폐막 행사를 마무리했다. 교황은 강론을 통해 “평화의 표징”이자 “인류의 미래”인 “보편적 일치”를 촉구했다. 아울러 교황은 인간이 때때로 배신당한다면서 이렇게 덧붙였다. “예를 들면 자유를 요청할 때마다 그 자유는 생명을 주기 위해서가 아니라 생명을 거두기 위해서, 돕기 위해서가 아니라 위해를 가하기 위해서입니다.”

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6월 1일, 교황께서는 가족, 어린이, 할아버지, 노인들을 위한 희년 미사 후 자신의 숙소와 가까운 곳에 위치한 아우구스티노회 성녀 모니카 국제신학원으로 이동해 점심을 함께하며 오랜 동료 수도자인 알레한드로 모랄 총장 신부의 70세 생일을 축하해 주셨다.

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5월 31일 성모성월을 마치면서 바티칸 정원 루르드 성모 동물 앞에서 진행된 묵주기도에 교황 레오 14세께서 참석하셨다.

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교황 레오 14세는 오전 11시경 카스텔 간돌포에 있는 ‘찬미받으소서 학교’를 갑자기 방문했다.

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5월 30일 오전, 교황 레오 14세는 바티칸에서 '평화의 경기장[Arena di Pace]'를 비롯하여 평화 및 사회 교리 관련 단체들과 협회들을 만났다

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교황청 공식 홈페이지(Vatican.va)가 새롭고 현대적인 디자인으로 단장했다. 교황청 홍보부는 이번 디자인은 교황의 가르침을 전 세계에 더 접근하기 쉬운 형식으로 제공한다.

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주우크라이나 교황대사 비스발다스 쿨보카스 대주교는 레오 14세 교황이 수요 일반알현에서 했던 호소를 되짚으며 마음의 회심이 필요하다고 강조했다. 포로 교환에 대해서는 “정치 문제를 해결하지 못했어도 대화는 적어도 인도주의적 관점에서 도움이 된다”고 설명했다.

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레오 14세 교황이 라틴아메리카와 카브리해 주교회의 창립 70주년을 맞아 의장 슈펭글러 추기경에게 보낸 서한에서 “선교적 활력에 대한 봉사”와 “사랑하는 대륙”을 순례 중인 하느님 백성에 대한 사목적 보살핌에 감사를 표했다.

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One of Pope Francis' last activities before he passed away was a visit to the Coeli prison in Rome. It reminded me about one of our own prisons in Australia, the prison where I was baptised. After all the falsification of police rumors by rogue Debianists, and the case of the arrested Outreachies, the prison story is a curious twist of the truth.

 

Here is the main gate of Pentridge prison. The church is in the background at the end of the prison wall:

 

The Pope presides over St Peter's basilica in Rome. In Coburg, Australia, we have St Paul's church. Rome also has the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, just as St Paul's is outside the walls of Pentridge.

 

Back in 1967, Ronald Ryan gained notoriety as the last man to hang in Australia. His crime was the murder of a prison guard while escaping from Melbourne's Pentridge Prison. He maintained he was innocent and there was some controversy over who fired the fatal shot.

Ryan's wikipedia page has a detailed description of the prison escape, describing the fatal incident at the intersection of Sydney Road, O'Hea Street and Champ Street.

St Paul's church is mentioned, Ryan's accomplice used a wall for shelter.

Walker went south across Church Street toward the adjacent Roman Catholic church in Sydney Road. Prison officer Bennett had his rifle aimed at Walker and ordered Walker to halt or he would shoot. Walker took cover behind a small wall that bordered the church.

The report goes on to the murder itself in the middle of this well known street.

George Hodson fell to the ground. He had been struck by a single bullet that exited through Hodson's back, about an inch lower than the point of entry in his right chest. Hodson died in the middle of Sydney Road. Warder Robert Paterson, now with a rifle, ran back outside and onto Champ Street.

On 30 March 1966, Ryan and his accomplice Walker were convicted of murder and manslaughter respectively. Their appeals were rejected in June 1966.

On 23 July 1966, shortly after Ryan's trial and appeal had both failed, Fr Sean Patrick O'Connell was ordained a priest at St Patrick's Cathedral, oblivious to the fact he would eventually have a "life sentence", if you could call it that, to occupy the church beside the gates of the prison.

Fr John Brosnan, a Jesuit, was the prison chaplain for 30 years from the 1950s to the 1980s. His work put him in touch with the prisoners, the guards and their respective families. He ran a high profile campaign to spare Ryan from the death penalty. (obituary of Fr Brosnan).

My father had already been living in Coburg prior to the arrival of Fr O'Connell. They knew each other throughout the entire period of forty years that Fr O'Connell served the parish.

Fr Sean O'Connell served brief periods in the parishes of Flemington, Werribee and Clifton Hill. In 1975 he became Assistant Priest for the Coburg parish and in 1979 he was appointed as Parish Priest.

In other words, Fr O'Connell arrived shortly before Fr Brosnan would finish his three decades of chaplaincy service on the other side of the adjacent prison wall.

The long and distinguished service of these men is the thing that really amplifies the sense of shock people feel about the wrongdoing of some among their peers. The priests known for wrongdoing had been moved from parish to parish every two or three years while Fr O'Connell and Fr Brosnan both had decades of service in the same locations.

In 1980, Bob Hawke was elected as the representative for Wills, the federal district enclosing Coburg. On 8 February 1983, Hawke became leader of the Labor Party and in March 1983, he became Prime Minister, holding onto the top job until December 1991. Hawke was not religious, nonetheless, he is widely remembered for his 1987 election promise that within three years, no Australian child will live in poverty.

Nonetheless, Hawke himself didn't live in the working class district of Coburg, he had a large house on the other side of Melbourne in Sandringham. Australia's Prime Minister has an official residence in Canberra, The Lodge and in Sydney, Kirribilli House .

Hawke's father was a Congregational minister but Hawke himself was an atheist. News reports suggest Hawke contemplated becoming a Catholic before his death. Is it possible the influence of Fr O'Connell had a subconscious impact on the former Prime Minister's thinking over the years?

In addition to his role in this very busy parish, Fr O'Connell was a director of Australian Catholic Relief (now Caritas) and the Catholic Immigration Office (CIO) within the Archdiocese.

I was born in the region and baptised right beside the prison at St Paul's church in December 1978.

 

 

In Switzerland, Italian is the official language for one of the 26 cantons, the Canton of Ticino. Around eight percent of the Swiss population speak Italian. In Coburg, fifteen percent speak Italian, yet it is not an official language in any part of Australia. Fr O'Connell is well known for learning Italian and giving ministry to the Italian community.

In this photo from a festival, the procession is walking between the walls of the prison (left and rear of the photo) and the church (right hand side of the photo).

 

On 17 June 1980, Maria James was brutally murdered at a bookshop where she lived about fifty meters from St Mary's, the church in Thornbury, a district adjacent to Coburg. A witness claimed they saw Fr Anthony Bongiorno covered in blood. Fr O'Connell provided an alibi, which police verified through other means, proving that Fr Bongiorno was actually in Coburg on the day of the murder. The crime remains unsolved.

In November 1982, gangland figure Brian Kane asked Father John Brosnan to preside at his eventual funeral. A week later and Kane was shot in the Quarry Hotel, Brunswick. Fr Brosnan described the request from Kane in a news report:

 

For the prisoners, Fr Brosnan was like a stable family that some of them never had before.

Likewise, Fr O'Connell's 40 years in Coburg gave him the status of a family member for many of those who got to know him over the decades.

Here is a photo of Father O'Connell with students from year 3 and their teacher Miss Keogh in 1985:

 

I never attended the school in Coburg. I did year 3 at St Patrick's in Kilmore. St Patrick's primary school is on the opposite side of the road from Assumption College, where Fr Brosnan attended high school himself many years prior.

In 1989, the largest employer in the district, Kodak, contemplated closing their factory. Prime Minister Hawke wasn't going to allow that to happen under his nose and the Government made a deal to keep the factory open. Nonetheless, by 2004, the rise of digital cameras made the factory obsolete and it closed anyway.

In 1992, when Hawke resigned, there was a byelection for the district and the winner was prominent local football personality Phil Cleary running as an independent against the established Labor party. His victory was a major coup. The rise of Cleary hints at the special relationship between sport, politics and religion in Australian society.

In 1996, I moved back to Coburg and for a while we lived in O'Hea Street, one of the places described in the report about Ronald Ryan's prison break.

 

Ronald Ryan's wife and daughters lived in Hawthorn, adjacent to Kew. When I tell anybody in Melbourne that I used to cycle from Pentridge to Xavier College on a daily basis it sounds rather odd.

 

In 1997, the Virtual Moreland Community Network was established and opened an office at 512 Sydney Road, also adjacent to the churches and the notorious prison. Here is a map:

 

 

The prison itself was closed on 1 May 1997. Some of the original heritage listed walls and buildings have been preserved.

Looking through official filings from the Australian Labor Party, I found the Vice President of the Coburg branch, an active member of the Upgrade Upfield Coordinating Committee was at one point living in a house owned by Fr O'Connell on Mackay Street, Coburg. Was it community activism that saved the train or was it the power of faith? It could have been a bit of both.

 

Nonetheless, it is another hint at the relationships between religion, politics and sport that underpin Australian society.

Fr John Brosnan passed away in 2003. He was given a state funeral in St Patrick's Cathedral (Eulogy for John Brosnan). The St Patrick's Cathedral choir became very well known due to the prosecution of Cardinal George Pell.

The last time I communicated with Fr O'Connell was February 2011. We needed a copy of the baptism certificate before the wedding. The wedding itself was on Palm Sunday, the same day that Adrian von Bidder (Debian) died in Switzerland.

 

von Bidder's death was discussed like a suicide and given that it happened shortly after other confirmed suicides, it feels like it was part of a suicide cluster on the day of our wedding. So I received the sacrament of baptism meters away from the gates of a notorious prison known for the murder of a prison guard and then at the sacrament of marriage, we had this Debian death that was avoidable and could even be a criminal act of manslaughter under the British definition of the law.

 

 

The day of the baptism was the first Sunday of Advent and the wedding, when Adrian von Bidder died, was Palm Sunday.

In 2010 I went to Zurich to work on a contract for UBS. The Kanton told us that we had to pay mandatory church taxes or we could not attend mass or be buried in a Swiss cemetery if we died there. This felt totally inconsistent with everything I had previously learnt about Christianity.

The church tax situation was even more confusing because they demanded that we give money to the church but they were refusing to cover the cost of medical services for Carla after somebody fell on her in a yoga studio.

In September 2012, the Irish immigrant Jill Meagher was last seen in the same street, Sydney Road, on the night of her abduction. The tragic death gained worldwide notoriety. There was significant anger and sadness in the region, amplified by the intense media attention.

At the time, I felt there was significant inconsistency between the manner in which Australian women were marching to support the white, attractive Irish immigrant Jill Meagher while turning a blind eye to the manner in which the government rounds up women from Afghanistan and Iran and puts them into state-sponsored concentration camps.

In 2013, I publicly resigned my membership of the Australian Labor Party due to the abuse of immigrants, comparing it to the scandal in the church.

16 September 2015, researcher Val Noone gave a presentation about the Irish in Coburg. The details were subsequently published in a blog. Fr O'Connell and Michael Laporta are credited as sources.

Father X.____, who I covered previously, moved to an adjacent parish in 2009 and retired in 2016.

Throughout 2016, the Child Abuse Royal Commission conducted a series of public and private hearings about abuse in the Catholic Church. Fr O'Connell is not one of those accused of wrongdoing, quite the opposite, the wrongdoing undermines his legacy. Nonetheless, Fr O'Connell died shortly after the public scandal, just as my father died shortly after Cardinal Pell was sent to prison in 2019.

Fr O'Connell's church and presbytery were surrounded on two sides by very high prison walls. Ironically, after living there for forty years, he may have only discovered at the same time as everybody else the extent to which a small group of his colleagues belonged on the other side.

Fr O'Connell's Golden Jubilee as a priest was 23 July 2016. Four days later, the ABC program 7:30 Report broadcast a mixed bag of accusations that would subsequently be the basis for the prosecution of Cardinal Pell.

On 18 December 2016, Fr O'Connell died at the Austin Hospital. A few days later, on 23 December 2016, his funeral was held as a Pontifical Requiem mass, in other words, the funeral was conducted by the bishop.

Immediately after that, in 2017, I started discovering the evidence about similar scandals in the supply chain of open source software. Between September and October I raised concerns with the organizations responsible for funding, especially Mozilla.

Coincidentally, Australia's Child Abuse Royal Commission handed down their report in December 2017, right in the middle of the period where I had discovered the wrongdoing in open source software.

Rogue Debianists became upset when their blackmail racket was exposed. They began censoring blogs at the end of 2018 and the Debian Christmas lynchings quickly followed.

Paul Tagliamonte from the US Digital Service (White House) stomped on people using metaphors about summary executions:

Subject: Re: Censorship in Debian
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:39:19 -0500
From: Paul R. Tagliamonte <paultag@gmail.com>
To: Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>
CC: debian-project@lists.debian.org

This entire thread is so cringy, this is likely my last reply.

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 9:31 PM Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2018, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote:
> > Please, all, get some perspective and stop with the comparisons to labor
> > camps, targeted killings, prisons and sentences of death. We sound like
>
> You did not understand the meaning of this comparison: The point was
> that the correct agreed upon and legal procedures have not been
> followed. And you deliberately removed this part from your email and
> consideration.

Gulags and military tribunals were both legal. They were not policy or
procedure fouls.
They were not foibles. It was intentional and targeted.

They were ways to murder dissidents. Say what you want about our ability to
self-govern the Debian community, and ways we've messed up, we've never
killed anyone as part of the expulsion process, and the comparisons need to
stop, even if I'm still "missing the point" and people consider what happened
with anti-harassment unfair. A-H is not killing DDs. Stop comparing them to it.

It's a very simple point.

> It is not about the planet, it is about expulsion that did not follow
> the rules. This *can* be consider a libel case due to influences on my
> professional life.
>
> Best
>
> Norbert

Paul

Tagliamonte's comment is wrong: people did die. Frans Pop and Adrian von Bidder both died shortly after the lynching of Sven Luther. Frans Pop wrote his suicide note / resignation email the night before Debian Day. See the full history of the Debian Harassment Culture. On the topic of Debian giving volunteers sentences, here are the gallows constructed to hang Ronald Ryan in D division at Pentridge:

 

Software in the Public Interest, Inc, a US non-profit, filed accounts for 2022 showing they spent $120,000 on legal fees to hide the fact Adrian von Bidder died, possibly as part of the suicide cluster, on our wedding day. Ironically, the psychology and the legal tactics used to evade liability for the suicides are remarkably similar to the tactics that the church was criticized for.

From baptism at the site of death to $120,000 in Debian kill money ...

 

The church reasoned that they had to hide certain crimes by priests to maintain the public perception of the church as infallible. Looking at the lifetime of good work done by men like Fr Brosnan and Fr O'Connell, their reputations have stood the test of time and their legacy would not have been diminished in any way if rogue priests had been managed more competently in the region throughout the same period.

Even if they spend $120 million dollars, the lawyers and judges can not bring back the volunteers who died. It is not easy to hide a death, especially when the Debian logo is on the tombstone, along with the date of our wedding:

 

Look at the email from Diana von Bidder-Senn, the widow. She was completely in the dark about debian-private and all the problems subsequent to the previous suicide. This is an example of how the public is fooled by the messages that Paul Tagliamonte and others were publishing to whitewash over the truth about Debian harassment culture. Would she have sent an email like this if she had read and understood all the emails about Frans Pop in 2010?

Subject: Re: condolences for Adrian
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:02:18 +0200
From: Diana von Bidder <diana@fortytwo.ch>
To: Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org>

Dear Stefano
Thank you for your wonderful mail! Yes Debian and people were very
important to Adrian. I was glad that he was not only sitting alone in
front of his computer but to know that there are people out there that
estimate him and are his friends even if most of you did not know each
other personally.
The way you describe him (empathy, calm, insight, ... - just the Adrian
I know) assures me on how good friends of Adrian are out there. And I
will always continue to think of this (in a good way!) when continuing
to use debian (which I became quite fond of because of Adrian). 
It's a pity that he couldn't go to Banja Luca anymore which he did so
much look forward to. Anyway, I wish you all the best and hope you
continue your good work.

- Diana

Shortly after Cardinal Pell died, I published a photo of our rowing crew. On 3 April 2023, the man sitting behind me won the National Emergency Medal. The following day, 4 April 2023, the Swiss financial regulator FINMA discretely shut down Parreaux, Thiebaud & Partners, leading to my investigation into the JuristGate scandal.

 

So I was baptised at the scene of a notorious death connected to the story of capital punishment in Australia and I went on to expose another facet of the corruption in the Swiss legal system. We don't know how many people have committed suicide due to invalid and corrupt judgments, liquidated lawyers, miscarriages of justice and other failings by racist Swiss hillbilly jurists. The suicide victims around Geneva are every bit as dead as George Hodson and Ronald Ryan.

I was granted Swiss citizenship on nothing less than the day of martyrs, an interesting coincidence when you consider the place of the baptism and the crimes I had exposed along the way. Could we say that Frans Pop and Adrian von Bidder were martyrs?.

 

Rest in peace George Hodson, Ronald Ryan, Fr Sean O'Connell & Fr John Brosnan SJ

 

Links

• Grave of Fr Sean O'Connell
• Aussie Criminals: report on Brian Kane
• News report alleging police took sides in gang wars
• News report from 2020 re-tells the story of Ronald Ryan, with many photos
• Book, A knockabout Priest - The story of Father J Brosnan, 1988 (biography)
• Pentridge Prison tours, office of the former chaplain Fr John Brosnan
• Catholic.Community News site
• Swiss corruption: Green Party, Liip SA (Liip AG) & Debian human rights violations
• Obituary (The Age): Vale Father Brosnan, an inmate's mate
• Jesuit Social Services: Brosnan loved by Brunswick local
• History of St Paul's primary school Coburg
• St Paul's parish Coburg history page
• List of deceased clergy, including biographical notes
• Herald Sun death notice for Fr Sean O'Connell
• Herald Sun funeral notice for Fr Sean O'Connell
• The Age funeral notice for Fr Sean O'Connell
• Unspecified biographical information held by the National Library of Australia

Please see the chronological history of how the Debian harassment and abuse culture evolved.

Father John Brosnan SJ passed away in 2003 and he was given a state funeral at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne. Fr Brosnan was one of the most notable priests in Australia's Catholic community due to his campaign against the death penalty and his contact with Ronald Ryan, the last man to hang in Australia.

Peter Norden AO, then Policy Director for Jesuit Social Services gave the eulogy. He makes some interesting comments about Fr Brosnan's philosophy. This is invaluable to our understanding of the flaws in the Code of Conduct (CoC) gaslighting phenomena.

‘I was in prison ……. and you visited me’.

This must be the most succinct description of the pubic life of Father John Brosnan.

As Australian of quite remarkable qualities, who spent thirty years ministering to those on the other side of the walls: The walls of Pentridge Prison, Coburg.

Those thirty years earned Father Brosnan the reputation of being ‘The Knockabout Priest.’

A priest who walked with a dignified and grace-filled presence the corridors of the most notorious prison in recent Australian history.

A pastor who combined Christian compassion and worldly wisdom as he advised and counselled thousands of inmates in their prison cells.

An advocate for human rights and civil liberties who undertook this task with discretion and subtlety and good humour.

A leading opponent of capital punishment, who knew from first hand experience the essential inconsistency of upholding the value of human life, by taking the life of another.

But there was much more to the life of Father John Brosnan than the thirty years he spent ‘in the nick’.

John Brosnan was born on 12 April 1919, at Keilambete, a small town between Terang and Mortlake, in the Western District of Victoria.

He was the third child of four children, the second of three sons, of Jeremiah Joseph Brosnan, a railway fettler, and his wife, Mark Jane, known as Jenny. Jeremiah Brosnan was born in County Kerry, Ireland, and migrated to Australia in 1886.

John Brosnan grew up in the small town of Cudgee, near Warrnambool, with is sister, Mary, present here today, and his brothers, Denis and Jim, both now deceased.

John was educated at Cudgee State School and later at Assumption College, Kilmore.

His early years at Cudgee, he often recalled in later years, growing up largely with Baptist families rather than a Catholic environment, prepared him for later life, where he moved easily in circles outside of the more sheltered Catholic Church network.

He often said that they had discovered ecumenism in Cudgee long before the Second Vatican Council and before it became fashionable!

Young John Brosnan later boarded at Assumption College for four years from the age of fifteen, from 1934-1937. He played one game with the First XVIII of Assumption College, but was carried off with a corkey ten minutes into the first quarter.

Geelong Football Club won the premiership that year in 1937, and his devotion to that other form of religion was well established, even in those days.

Late that evening, young John Brosnan led an enthusiastic celebration march down the main street of Kilmore with fellow students. The Marist Headmaster at the time, Brother Hilary, suggested that it might not have been appropriate for a young man with intentions to join the seminary the following year!

Stopped by people in the street in later years, who began their conversation with: ‘Father, I am not of your faith, but …’, Father Brosnan would interrupt them and say: ‘You mean you don’t follow my beloved Cats?’

Last August, the Geelong Football Club was preparing a public tribute to Father Brosnan, at their last home game, to be played at Colonial Stadium. The tribute was postponed, after Father broke his hip a few weeks before.

Discussing the preparations for this event with the young marketing officer from the club in recent days, I asked him: ‘Do you know who Father Brosnan was?’ He admitted he didn’t. I told him: Father Brosnan was effectively the marketing man for the Geelong Football Club around Australia, before the term ‘marketing’ was even invented!

As a student of Assumption College, young John Brosnan did apply for the seminary, to Bishop Daniel Foley of Ballarat. Many years later, Father Brosnan still remembered the curt letter in reply: ‘Dear Mr Brosnan, we have no vacancies for students for the priesthood in the Diocese of Ballarat. The religious orders are always anxious for suitable candidates.’

His personal and spiritual references from Assumption had been first class, even if his academic achievements were not, and after failing Latin of all subjects in his first year of Matriculation, he repeated the year and was accepted into the Archdiocese of Melbourne by Archbishop Mannix the following year, in 1938.

In 1945, John Brosnan was ordained a priest by Archbishop Mannix, here at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, at the age of twenty-six.

The next two years he worked in Geelong, as chaplain to the Saint Augustine’s orphanage. Then as assistant priest at Saint Joseph’s Church in Collingwood for two years. Then he was stationed here at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral for a further five years, until his appointment to the position of Chaplain to Pentridge Prison in 1956.

During the years as Assistant Priest here at Saint Patrick’s he came to know and admire deeply Archbishop Mannix. Much of his astute capacity to move so effectively in public life came from the lessons he learned watching and listening to Mannix during those years.

In his biography, Father Brosnan explained the impact that Mannix had on him:

‘Dr Mannix was the only person, man, woman or child, I have known in my life I couldn’t take my eyes off. His every movement was worth watching, his every word worth hearing. I could watch Don Bradman bat, I could watch Reg Hickey or Polly Farmer move on a football field and I could watch Dr Mannix drink his soup! Every movement of the man was worth watching. You realised you were in the presence of greatness.’

When he arrived at Pentridge Prison as Chaplain in 1956, at the age of thirty-five, John Brosnan was both astonished and disturbed to find so many of his former junior football players from the inner-city parishes and from the orphanage at Geelong serving time. Before the psychologists had worked it out, he spoke about ‘kids’ futures being written on their faces before they were born.’ The ten years of priestly ministry before his assignment to Pentridge had prepared Father Brosnan well for his assignment to those sentenced to Her Majesty’s prisons.

His priesthood was one deeply inculturated in the lives of ordinary people. He was as much at home in Hardiman’s Pub, on Flemington racetrack or at the dogs on Monday nights, as he was in the church buildings. But he was always the pastoral man, offering a word of recognition or encouragement when it was most needed.

A man with a big heart for those in real need, offering a generous and practical response when called for. But this was balanced by an honesty and an insight into human behaviour which was hard to parallel: ‘Nurse a mug long enough and he will die in your arms’ was one of his sayings.

His great love of people, his incredible knowledge of family trees, and his memory for names and places, remained with him through to the end. His last thirteen years of ministry after retirement from Pentridge in 1985 were spent in the parishes: firstly, at Glenhuntly, then eleven years as Parish Priest at Holy Redeemer Church in Surrey Hills.

At Glenhuntly, one of his pastoral responsibilities included the care of those who attended the nearby Caulfield Racecourse. At Surrey Hills, his involvement with the local families watching their children progress through primary school was one of his delights. He knew each child by name and would reward many by a little treat at the end of the school day, usually a Mars Bar! Late last year a Year 8 student at Saint Kevin’s College asked me to send his regards to Father Brosnan: ‘Tell him, from the punter.’

But Father Brosnan’s public persona was formed during his thirty years as Chaplain at ‘The College of Knowledge’ in Sydney Road, Coburg.

There were many thousands of people assisted by Father Brosnan’s presence within the walls of Pentridge Prison during those years. When opening a new site for the Brosnan Centre, then in Sydney Road, Brunswick, former Premier John Cain quipped: ‘Father Brosnan worked with a terrible lot of people.’

However, this generous hearted man, with such a wonderful insight into human behaviour, pastored not only to those behind the walls of the prison, but to many thousands of others, in particular their wives, their children and their friends, many of whom could be regarded as victims of crime.

For the first twenty years of his prison ministry, Father Brosnan lived in a little cottage in Abbotsford, provided by the Good Shepherd Sisters. Here a procession of friends and prison acquaintances would visit him after hours, especially on Saturday mornings. Supported in a practical and generous way by the Sisters, Father Brosnan operated one of the then most effective after-care services, from his own residence.

He was pleased to see this early work as the forerunner of the Brosnan Centre established by the Jesuits in 1977, and later named after him, on his retirement from prison ministry in 1985.

In his last ten years as prison chaplain, he lived in a centrally located flats behind the old Saint Vincent’s hospital, provided by the Sisters of Charity. Throughout his working life, he appeared to have just one pair of shoes, one suit, and a sports jacket. What he was given as a gift was generally passed on to someone in need.

Saint Vincent De Paul prison visitors and VACRO, assisting the families of prisoners, were key collaborators in his ministry.

VACRO’s former manager, Matt Derham, used to refer to Father’s ‘old boys association’ as ‘Bros’s menagerie.’

Just as the time with Archbishop Mannix was a formative period in his priestly life, so was his ministry to Ronald Ryan and Ryan’s family. The public campaign against capital punishment with which he was so centrally involved in late 1966 and early 1967, was in one sense a failure.

But Ryan’s last words before his execution, directed to Father Brosnan, tell another story: ‘Never forget, no matter how long you live, you were ordained for me.’

Father Brosnan’s involvement with Ryan was one of the clearest, and certainly the most public, forms of witness he could give to the unconditional love of God.

Many Christian people mistakenly believe that this love must be earned or deserved. Father Brosnan had learned through his own life experience, especially through 30 years of prison ministry, that it is freely given.

It is significant, and a tribute to Father Brosnan’s involvement in the campaign against capital punishment, that Ryan was the last person executed by the State in Australia’s history and that capital punishment has now been removed from the statutes of every State and Territory in this country.

One of the most endearing qualities of John Brosnan was his refusal to sit in judgement on others. When it was suggested that one of his friends had been found to be involved in some form of dubious or illegal activity, ‘so they say’ he would comment.

While traditional in his theological beliefs, he had an enormous pastoral capacity and personal freedom to respond creatively to the circumstances of the person seeking his advice or guidance.

He moved with grace and with dignity across all levels of our society, and was well received by persons of all political persuasions and religious beliefs or ideologies.

The demand for his presence in public forums and as an after-dinner speaker was unbelievable and his capacity for this did not diminish with the years. He was often asked how he survived 30 years in the Nick. He would refer to four ancient documents that were a big help, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. He would also quote words of wisdom from Henry Lawson.

John Brosnan was able to speak on sensitive issues, such as the need for prison reform, in a way that was hard to take offence, even in an entertaining but always respectful manner. Through this means, he was able to help the wider community consider and reflect on the complex issues of crime and punishment.

A notable example was when he was invited by the then Minister for Prisons, Pauline Toner, to join her in addressing an angry crowd of more than a thousand local residents opposed to the construction of Barwon Prison at Lara.

Father Brosnan was, as always, the essence of diplomacy and a builder of bridges between different points of view.

Many people will be affected by the departure of Father John Brosnan: Mary, his sister, the foremost, of course. And the members of Father’s Brosnan’s family.

Throughout this Cathedral today many people, from many different walks of life, will shed a tear as they reflect on the impact that this remarkable priest has had on their lives.

It may have been a quiet word of encouragement at a time of personal crisis. Or a contact made that led to a job opportunity or a decent place to live. Or his presence in court, when it seemed little could be said on one’s behalf. Or a quiet word of advice to a politician or public servant.

This legacy of Father Brosnan will live on in the centre that bears his name: The Brosnan Centre.

But what we will miss most of all is his friendship.

I can just her John Brosnan ask the question, at the pearly gates, with some wonderment:

‘Lord, when did I see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did I see you a stranger and make you welcome; sick or in prison and go to see you/’

And the Lord will answer him:

‘I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it to me.’

Father John Brosnan, a faith-filled life that brought hope and encouragement where it was most needed.

A life of respectful and committed service, with much to say to our divided world at the present time. Father Brosnan, we thank you!

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