Catholics

Catholics

After 1808, there were no official Catholic priests in NSW until Phillip Connolly and Joseph Therry were appointed in 1820.
1. Connolly ministered in Tasmania while Therry nagged Governor Darling in Sydney so that in 1826 he was offered 300 pounds to leave the colony. In 1837, Therry was reinstated.
John Bede Polding was Australia's first Catholic bishop in 1834 and first archbishop in 1842.
By the late 1840s, political factions within and outside of parliaments in NSW and Tasmania had support from Catholic leadership.
Around this same time, Caroline Chisholm started lobbying governments to provide assisted passage to Australia for female migrants and families, and through this, wound up helping around 11,000 settlers.
1. Concerned by frontier abuses
2. Campaigned to end convict transportation to mainland eastern Australia (achieved in 1840).
3. In favour of universal suffrage
The Good Shepherd Sisters was founded in 1857 by Bishop Polding and was the first Australian religious order for women.
Henry Parkes' "Public Instruction Act (1880)" abolished government funding of church schools by 1882.
Australian Labor Party was founded in 1891 and became the political party with the allegiance of most Catholics.
During the 1890s, the St Vincent De Paul Society formed and came to be the leading agency for social welfare, having established 26 branches by 1895 to assist families in need.
In 1914, almost 300,000 Irish Catholics emigrated to Australia, joining the Italian Catholic migrants who arrived with the gold rushed of the 1850s. This caused Catholicism to have the second greatest amount of adherents in Australia, after the Church of England.

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