This quote comes from an almost full page report on p.3:
"Melbourne will have its own $30 million mini-Vatican City under plans by the Catholic Church. East Melbourne will be the focus of the Catholic precinct, which will include colleges and a university. The cost of the developments - dubbed the"Vatican City" plan in senior Catholic ranks - already has passed $10 million,
A church spokesman said the developments were designed to create as oasis of spiritual inspiration in Melbourne's central business district. In the bold plan being driven by Archbishop Pell, the archdiocese has:
BEGUN a $5 million revamp of the Sacred Heart Parish and St George's school site in Carlton to establish the Corpus Christi seminary PAID millions of dollars for Victoria's old mint in Victoria Pde, East Melbourne, as the New site for the $20 million Australian Catholic University.
STARTED building a $5 million Catholic Theological College opposite Dallas Brooks Hall.
PLANS to build an adult education centre and theological library on the college site.
COMMISSIONED a statue of Archbishop Daniel Mannix to be unveiled in the forecourt of St Patrick's Cathedral, three days before St Patrick's Day.
COMPLETED an extensive refurbishment of James Goold House at 228 Victoria Pde after buying it from the State Government in a  multi-million dollar deal.

Archdiocese spokesman Michael Casey said the precinct would be a focus for Victoria's 1.2 million Catholics.
"The term Vatican City could apply as there is no doubt centralising these  areas of the Catholic church will bring benefits to Melburnians and Catholics alike," he said.

The final cost will be more than $30 million.

A spokesman for the archdiocese of Melbourne , father Christopher Prowse, said the developments would all cost $2-3 million. "All will be in the low to mid-dollar range," he said. But the university would cost $20 million.
"More importantly they will open up theological opportunities for Melbourne's northern and western suburbs, " he said. "We have tended to cater, not deliberately but more by location, to the southern and eastern suburbs."
Fr Prowse said Archbishop Pell was firmly behind the plan.
."He has been very much in the driver's seat on this because he wants to establish theology in the CBD," he said.
(NOTE: "theology" of the Catholic Church right in the City Business District of  our second largest city!)

The Corpus Christi seminary is the first stage of the plan for several developments by the Roman Catholic Trusts Corporation. The development involves relocating the Corpus Christi college seminary for Tasmania and Victoria from Clayton. The 8185 sq. m site , owned by the corporation and bounded by Drummond, Rathdowne and Pelham Sts, is to become home to 52 trainee priests. In November 1996, five teaching staff at the Clayton campus quit over Archbishop Pell's plans to relocate and reform the institution. The university will be an amalgamation of the Mercy Campus and the Christi Campus in Oakleigh. It is expected to start taking students next year. Archdiocese spokesman Michael Casey said the diocese had been buying land in Melbourne's inner suburbs to establish the precinct.
"We have been buying land where opportunities arise in east Melbourne and Carlton in particular, " Mr Casey said.
"The church has been and will continue to be on the lookout to buy land to develop in inner Melbourne. It certainly means a large section of the Catholic Church will be located in East Melbourne and in Carlton to a lesser extent."

[Graphic:
ARCHBISHOP DANIEL MANIX
WITH THE
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
CROWDS IN
MELBOURNE
IN 1954]
The statue of Archbishop Mannix is expected to arrive in Melbourne within the next three weeks, Archbishop Mannix, the head of Melbourne's Catholic Church from 1917 to 1963, is considered one of the major inspirations of Archbishop Pell. His status will be erected near an aboriginal motif recently placed in the St Patrick's forecourt." (End of report by Herald/Sun).

CANBERRA AND THE VATICAN.
Australia's capital city, Canberra, is itself designed as a great religious centre, just like Rome! The theosophical plan by Walter and Marion Griiffin is described in an amazing book, "The Secret Plan of Canberra" by Peter Proudfoot (University of New South Wales Press):
"...In the central mundus or microcosmic world was erected the templum (temple), which was formed by an analogous procedure of circular consecration within which a cardinally oriented four-square house was dedicated to the gods or residing deity of the city. This tradition is remembered at St Peter's Basilica in Rome, where the axes of the original Greek cross are located directly over the grave of St Peter....The diagrams encapsulate the geometry of the Canberra plan; they also display a structure which is common to the plans of sacred geomatic constructions at Stonehedge and Glastonbury, in the ideal cities of Plato, and the New Jerusalem as conjectured by John Michell in The Dimensions of Paradise. The nucleus of the Canberra design is a system of forms generated from the sacred figure of the Vesica..." (pp 12,13).

Bible-based Christians will see immediately the shocking fulfillment of prophecy in the enlargement of the power of the Vatican across the world. The Roman Catholic "Beast" church is already a vast global structure with enormous political clout, influencing and controlling hundreds of millions of people. The Vatican is becoming increasingly syncretised with pagan religions ( see WCRP report in Despatch last year), the Pope has met and worshipped with many pagan religions at Assisi. The One World Church will be dominated by the Vatican. Australia is right now being prepared for an acceleration of power in this country from this religious body. Italy and other hugely Catholic countries, are excellent examples of what MIGHT the Roman Catholic Church wields in society and civil government.

The allocation of money for the building of a Mini-Vatican in Melbourne may well come from the World Bank, although the Vatican itself is unbelievably wealthy!  The denominations of apostate Christendom have formed a union with the World Bank which is astonishing. Despatch, February 1999, has details of this amalgamation. Our own Cathedral in Brisbane (Anglican) could also be funded by the World Bank. It has been unfinished now for many years, but when Archbishop Hollingworth came back from the Lambeth conference in the UK, he announced he now had the money to finish the Cathedral, at last. The President of the World Bank was at that Lambeth conference.

Remember Christians, the Whore of Babylon riding the Beast in Revelation 17 is prophetically a religious global Church Union which is seen controlling economies and political powers. The Whore (apostate Christendom) is riding the Beast (the political and economic powers of the globe), and SHE is holding the reigns! She cannot gain power unless she "rides" the political might of the New World Order. In the Tribulation period the Antichrist will finally destroy the One World Church, but before that she will have immense power! (Revelation 17:15-18).
A warning to God's people about the last form of apostate Christendom is seen in Revelation 18: 1-8.
"Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues."

W. B. Howard ...Editor of Despatch

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