8/1/3/6 - Overseas Missions: Vicariate: 1939048 Power, C.P., Carthage

8/1/3/6

Overseas Missions: Vicariate: 1939048 Power, C.P., Carthage

Foolscap Sheet

Overseas Missions: Vicariate: South Africa: Botswana: Kimberley Vicariate: REPORTS: "Bechuanaland Prefecture: NEWSLETTER July, 1960" signed by Fr. Carthage Power, C.P. This is the second newsletter from Botswana. It is winter and vegetation to feed the cattle is very scarce. Poverty is rampant. Children flock to the schools, but there are few traditional Catholic families. The new convent of St. Teresa's Mission, Lobatsi was opened on the feast of St. Gabriel by Monsignor Murphy. An accouint of progress in Lobatsi is given, as is that at Ramoutsa. A progress report on St. Joseph's College, Khale, and accounts concerning Morwa. Malalapye, Francistown are su[pplied. Carthage appeals to his bretehrn to send on books suitable for priestly life.

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