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Article: Father Peter Murphy. Outback Priests: 25 Stories from the Toowoomba Diocese.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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FATHER PETER MURPHY. Outback Priests: 25 Stories from the Toowoomba Diocese. Diocese of Toowoomba, Toowoomba, 2004. ISBN 0-949122-52-3; ppb; 151 pages.
In a way, the photo on the cover says it all--the clear sky, the bush setting, the open road, all suggestive of an outback diocese, and the priest controlling his mount in a masterly way with firm, kind hand and steady eye.
In a tribute to the priests, pioneering and otherwise, Father Peter Murphy gives us a fine pen-picture of twenty-five deceased priests of Toowoomba, a diocese established in 1929. There is also a touching dedication to three priests who died very young, long before they could be ...