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Melanesian Journal of Theology 8-2 (1992) The Catholic Church and Economic Development in Papau Fr Theo Aerts Introduction 1.The Sources The pre-history of the Catholic presence in the islands of Melanesia is rather well known from the voluminous research of Dr Ralph Wiltgen (1981), which covers the period up to 1850, and the earlier German work of Dr Reiner Jaspers (1972), which reaches up to 1855. However, the uninterrupted presence of the Catholic church in these island dates back only 100 years. The first half was treated in 1932-1935 by a collection of essays, Pioniere der Sudsee, edited by the German, Fr Joseph Hueskes, and concerned with the Rabaul Mission, and, further, by the French classic of Fr Andre Dupeyrat, Papouasie: Histoire de la Mission 1885-1935, dealing with the Yule Island mission. For the Marist Fathers, Hugh Laracy produced, in 1976, a slim volume on Marists and Melanesians, which treats the whole of the Solomon Islands archipelago. One the side of the Divine Word Fathers, there are partial studies by the Fathers Patrick Murphy, John Tschauder, Jaokob Noss, and, again, Ralph Wiltgen. These general works can be supplemented, especially for the Rabaul Mission, 1880-1900, by Papers prepared for the visit of Pope John Paul II to Papua New Guinea (1984), and by ten, or so, biographies, or by the collected letters of Bishops H. Verjus and A. de Boismenu, of Fathers Bourjade, Chabot, Genoechi MSC, Mazzucconi PIME, Morschheuser, Ross, and Schaefer SVD, and of Sisters Marie-Therese Noblet, and S. Bazin de Jessey AD.
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