Dear Mother Dear Father: Letters Home from John Corcoran Wallis 1927-1949

Born in Victoria Fr John Wallis (1910-2001) Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Hobart founded the Australian Religious Order the Missionary Sisters of Service in Tasmania in 1944. The Sisters were to be available to go into the highways and byways; and flexible to meet the pastoral needs of isolated communities throughout Australia. This series of letters to Johns parents and family gives us a rare and precious insight into his life as a seminarian and young priest. They also reflect a growin...See More