28 May 2015
EH
For 15 years Fr Paul Bourke’s inland mission parish stretched all the way from Woomera in the south of South Australia to Uluru in the Northern Territory, encompassing isolated places like Oodnadatta, Coober Pedy and William Creek. Fr Bourke tells Catherine Marshall the region’s emptiness was filled in turn by a spiritual richness that could be felt most acutely when ministering to the dying and the bereaved – such as the time a helicopter crashed over Lake Eyre in 2011, killing the three ABC camera crew members on board.
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