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Melbourne Priest in KoreaRev. Fother Phillips, O Corm, withBishop Oplhori, of Hiroshima.A striking tribute to the ministry of Rev. J. Phillips, O.Carm., who was well known in Melbourne, is expressed in a letter from Rev. J. Ryan, chaplain to Catholics in United Kingdom forces in Korea and Japan. Saying that the British Army had been convinced of the great benefit to the soldiers of three-day retreats and had agreed to the establishment of a Catholic Retreat House in Kure for Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and United Kingdom Forces, Father Ryan requests that Father Phillips be permitted to remain to get the house established. I worked with Father J. Phillips for twelve months in Korea before coming here, and I was deeply impressed and encouraged by his untiring zeal and spirituality. His success in Korea has been outstanding. He has brought back countless soldiers to their faith. There is not a soldier in the Australian or New Zealand Forces over there who does not know, and revere him, and it is my profound wish that these qualities of his should benefit the British and Canadian soldiers also. The temptations in this place are enormous, and it needs someone with the spiritual calibre of Father Phillips to combat them. I have never come across a chaplain with such an aptitude as his tor getting the lads back to their duties. He had the gift of infinite patience in dealing with the individual soldier.
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Melbourne Advocate
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Thu, May 22, 1952
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