HOBART (TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA)
The Mercury
September 7, 2017
By Julian Punch
My studies for the priesthood began at Werribee in Victoria in 1958, four years before the start of the Second Vatican Council and seven years before the papal decree on priestly training, Optatam Totius, radically changed the emphasis from sacrifice to having a pastoral role.
The Corpus Christi campus was a historic property formerly owned by the Chirnside family.
It looks impressive, but the mansion is shrouded in the sadness of insanity and suicide.
Fred Schepisi’s semi-autobiographical film, The Devil’s Playground, which was made there in 1976, tells the story of a boy like me who grew up in a Catholic seminary dealing with temptations of the flesh and all its manifold tensions.
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