New Order of Nuns for Moresby Slum Work
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Moresby Slum Work
IHREE Little Sisters of Jesus, . Paule-Madeleine, Odile-Andree, and Jacqueline-Odette, arrived Sydney in early March on routes. The first of a number of ms of this Order who will go to )rk in Papua, they will do social )rk amongst the natives and half stes. The Order was founded in e Thirties by Father Charles de )ucauld, a French officer who be me a priest and lived in the thara among the turbulent Arabs. ; was killed by one of them in 16.
The ideal of the Order is to live longst the most abandoned and orest people and to bring them a better way of life—not by aching or preaching, but by arity, good example and prayer.
One does not usually consider the 1 0 P 1 e of our Pacific Islands bandoned” or of being particularly or. But certainly some of the tive settlements close to Port aresby including the “new” maubada —are near-slums and far
>m beautiful—good seed-beds for
tnmunism and other troubles [t is understood that it is in these rroundings that the Sisters will st go to work.