Rev John Whiting CSsR
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Rev
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John
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Thomas
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Whiting
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CSsR
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Australia
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Keilor VIC
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Australia
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Biographical Notes
CCP, Galong, Wagga, NSW, Ayr, Qld, Scoresby, Vic
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Gravestone: "Priest and Founder, Society of Christ, Priest and Victim".
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Barry O'Brien, Praying for priests: The Society of Christ Priest and Victim, AD2000, Vol 20 No 6 (July 2007), p. 15, https://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2007/jul2007p15_2583.html:
The late Pope John Paul II, when he was a seminarian training for the priesthood in Poland, regularly prayed the Litany of Christ Priest and Victim. Later in his pontificate he promoted this prayer quite strenuously. The late Father John Whiting, founder of the Confraternity of Christ the Priest, in the later years of his life encouraged many others to pray this prayer in his petitions to God for more priests and to pray for all priests who are suffering in their vocations, as did Our Divine Lord, 'Christ Priest and Victim'. Since Father Whiting's death, Fr Paul Crotty of the Port Pirie Diocese in South Australia, together with other priests and religious, has taken up Fr Whiting's work. [...]