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From News Weekly to the Catholic Weekly Sixty-Two Years of Writing for the Religious and Secular Media MICHAEL COSTIGAN From News Weekly to the Catholic Weekly Sixty-two Years of Writing for the Religious and Secular Media MICHAEL COSTIGAN It occurred to me at some stage in 2007 that a special personal anniversary was looming. November of that year would see the sixtieth anniversary of the first of many hundreds of occasions when one of my bits of writing appeared in print in other than a school magazine. With the aim of marking the occasion, 1 began jotting down notes for a retrospective account of my mainly journalistic outpourings. The project, abandoned for a number of reasons, was revived in 2009, courtesy of the kind invitation of the Australian Catholic Historical Society. Thus, at the ri sk of being excessively autobiographical, I agreed to renect on my own modest but long-term contribution to the Catholic and general media over half a dozen decades as a journalist, editor and freelance writer. If it has any value, my account will shed a little light on a period of great change in the Church, in society and in the media of communication. In school and seminary (1947-61); early writings I was a sixteen-year-old sc hoolboy in 1947 when my first article appeared in print in what, at least in Victoria, where it was on sale at many church doors, was erroneously deemed to be a Catholic publication. I refer to News Weekly, the organ of B. A. Santamaria's anti-communist Movement, later the National Civic Council. That year, a few of us senior boys at the Jesuits' St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, had been invited by a resurgent post-war Campion Society to join a training class conducted by the author Niall Brennan for would-be writers. The homework given to me one week was to use the resources of the Melbourne Herald's library to put together an article on the hi story of the Melbourne Cup. Thinking my article was worth publishing , Niall gave it to Ted Madden, the editor of News-Weekly, where it duly appeared, without my by-line. I remember well the heading, 'Prom Archer to Hiraji: 87 Years of Melbourne Cups' . It was a proud moment for a tledgling writer. A few of my other articles were published while I was still at school in journals like New YOlllh , the organ of the Young Christian Workers movement. They were mostly on sporting events like the Stawell Gift and the 1948 Olympic Games . In my Matriculation year the Jesuits' Professional Men's Sodality published my pious award-winning poem, ' Sacristan of my Soul' . Michael Costigan had careers as a pricsl. joumalisl. senior public scrV<ltl l. employee of lhe Aus lr;llian Bishops and academic. He gave (h is talk to th e Society in August 2009, reminiscing on his outpu t as a published writer frolll 1947 102009. [n retiremen t from full-time employment si nce 2005. Dr Costigan is an Adjunct Professor allhe Australian Catholic Un iversity. nlis paper was presen ted at ,1 meeting of the Australian Cl\holie Historic,ll Society at St Mllry's CHlhedral on 9 August 2009. 7 Journal of the Australian Ca th olic His torical Society After entering the seminary in Werribee, Vi ctoria, in 1949 and going on to Propaganda Fide College, Ro me , in 1952, I wrote often for in-house literary journals produced by the seminarians and for institutional annuals. I also wrote from time to time for several Catholic publications , including the Monslrance, the Messenger oflhe Sacred Hearl, the Advoca/e, the 7i-ibllne , the English Calholic Worker and the American HOll1iielic and Pasloral Review. Eight Advocate Years (1961-69) Late in 1961 , soon after completing nine years of study in Rome and returning to Melbourne, I was a ppointed Associate Editor of the Advocale by Archbishop Mannix. This meant filling a position previously held with distinction for over twenty years by the hi storian- sociolog ist Father James Murtagh, author of Auslralia: lhe Calholic Chapler. It was Mannix's practice to name a senior Irish priest as Editor of the paper, in a kind of watchdog role, leaving most of the editing work to the younger priest, who worked in cooperation with lay staff. During my eig ht years as Associate Editor, the titular Editor was Father Denis Murphy, an elderly and semi-invalid parish priest, who spent little time in the Advocale's office and no time at all helping to produce or write anything, except a rare brief book notice, for the weekly issues of the paper. His main personal concern was to ensure that we retained a page of Irish news, supplied every week by a correspondent in Dublin. My main colleague and mentor was a former seminarian with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Frank Murphy, who had learned journalism on the job at the Advocale and became a good friend to me during some difficult years. He was a fine sub-editor and writer, specialising in the reviewing of opera, ballet and theatre while producing well-balanced editorials, book reviews and occasional feature articles. He was the author of an admired biography of Daniel Mannix. The only other full-time journali sts on the staff were John McLean, a roundsman for diocesan and parish news, and, for a time, Bert De Luca, a competent sub-editor and former schoolmate of mine at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne. Among the other regular contributors to the paper in those years were the prolific commentator on national and international affairs and editorial writer, Denys Jackson, and the psychologist and teacher, Ronald Conway, who wrote film reviews and who, after my time, became the paper 's most provocative columnist. Conway was later to win renown as an articulate media commentator and as the author of books like The Land of lhe LOSI Weekend, The Creal AlISlralian SltIpor and hi s autobiography, COl/way's Way. The veteran writer Hugh Buggy covered sport every week and also assisted in reporting events like the openings of new schools and churches. Several women, led by the one who wrote for many years as Catherine Kaye, submitted regular columns. And we published many book reviews and literary articles sent to us from Brisbane by Martin Haley, a renow ned man of letters. 8 From News Weekly to the catholic Weekly During my years at the Advocate I served under three Archbishops of Melbourne - Daniel Mannix, Justin Simonds and James Knox. From the beginning I had seen it as my main task in those years to bring information to our readers about the Second Vatican Council and its follow-up. Having been in Rome when Pope John XXIII announced his decision in January 1959 to convene a General Council and during the first two years when the event was being planned , I had returned to Australia full of youthful enthusiasm for what was about to happen. During the Council's first three-month session , in 1962, the Catholic press did its best to report on the event , while finding that information from Vatican so urces was less than adequate. While the general media carried stories about controversies erupting in the Council hall , these were largely ignored or down-played by those officially responsible for news di ssemination. This was to change before the second session in 1963 , as far as the English-speaking world was concerned , after the publication of books about the events of 1962 by the likes of 71me magazine's Robert Kaiser, a former Jesuit, and the Redemptorist priest Francis Xavier Murphy, hiding hi s identity under the pseudonym Xavier Rynne. Faced by the fact that information could no longer be suppressed or heavily censored, the Vatican authorities did not stand in the way of a decision by the United States bishops to organise. inform. ative daily briefing gatherings, led by panels of experts, at the remammg sessIOns. At the annual convention in Hobart early in 1963 of the Catholic Press Association of Australi a and New Zealand, Archbishop Guilford Young gave us a much more detailed account of what had happened at the Council's first session than the official sources had provided. He exhorted us to have a presence in Rome for the second session later that year. As a consequence, I was asked by four of the weekly papers - the Advocate, the 7i'ibune, the SOlllhem Cross and the Stal/dard - to go to Rome as a priest-journalist to cover the session , from September to December 1963 . It was the experience of a life-time. I was present in the Council hall on a number of days. That was memorable , but I soon found that attendance at media briefings and lectures by leading Council members and theological advisers, together with the chance to have discussions with other accredited reporters, was more useful to a young cleri cal journalist still wearing an L-plate than listening to a series of ten-minute Latin speeches. Although Archbishop Simonds was to offer me the chance to return to Rome to report on the Council's final two annual sessions, in 1964 and 1965 , my advice to him, which he accepted, was to let me cover what was happening from the Advocate's office, now that 1 had contacts with and access to several enlightening sources - some in the UK and the US A and others in Italy, France, Germany and the Netherland s. These sources supplemented the reasonably comprehensive information supplied by airmailed bulletins from the Ameri can Bishops' own news service. During each of those two sessions I used all those sources to put together 9 Journal of the Australian Ca th olic His torical Society Fr Michael Cosligall alld Archbishop Guilfo rd Youllg olliside SI Peler :~ Basilica .
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