Use of Title “Priest”—
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Protest from London
The heading on page 63 of Janu ary PIM, “First BSI Priest,” has brought a strong protest from the Rev. George Warren, General Sec retary in London of the Melanesian Mission (Anglican).
The PIM heading was meant to convey that the BSI native was the first ordained Roman Catholic priest; but, as Mr. Warren points out, the ordained men of the An glican Church have the same claim to the title of “priest.”
Mr. Warren says: “In Melanesia there have died 40 Melanesian priests; some 50 or so are still alive;
most of these are Solomon Islanders —so the person referred to in your article is nearer being the hundred and-first rather than the first BSI priest.”
According to Anglican church men, there are two kinds of Catho lics—Roman Catholics and English Catholics—and confusion is caused when Roman Catholics are re ferred to as “Catholics,” and Eng lish Catholics as “Anglicans.” ]\ Miss Jill Bignold, who graduated recently from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, sailed from Sydney in the March Bulolo to spend a few months with her father, Mr. Justice Bignold, of Port Moresby.