Personal, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 23 June 1908, p 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5153778:

The Rev. Father Louwyck, writing from Rome under date of May 21, states that he was graciously received by the Pope, who gave him a special blessing for his works in the temperance cause in South Australia. When the Pope heard that Father Louwyck was engaged in the temperance cause he put his hand on Father Louwyck's head and said, "De toto corde!" (with all my heart) and then gave his blessing. Father Louwyck adds—"I hope to be back soon in Australia. There is no place like Australia."

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London Personal Notes, The Chronicle, Adelaide, 25 July 1908, p 39, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88384951:

Among the Australian clerics at present in London is the Rev. N. H. Louwyck, who came home by the Ophir at Easter and has spent a good deal of his time on the Continent. After a few days in London he went to Brussels to see the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs and to make certain enquiries regarding the much discussed state of affairs in the Congo. Thence Mr. Louwyck went to Switzerland, and then to Rome. He obtained an audience with the Pope, who gave a special blessing for temperance work in Australia.

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Facks and Roomers, The Areas' Express, Booyoolee, 6 November 1908, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218921477:

Our friend, Father Louwyck, is giving up the church and taking on journalism. He should commence by studying the law of libel.

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Personal, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 7 January 1909, p 9, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article516056:

The Rev. N. H. Louwyck, formerly of Georgetown, and now in Europe, who has definitely severed his connection with the Roman Catholic Church, is about to publish a series of three pamphlets dealing with clerical life in Australia. The first will be entitled "A Glorification of Alcoholism," and will, it is understood, deal primarily with his eviction from his charge at Georgetown. The second book will be "An Excursion to the inner circles of Clerical Life," the nature of which is perhaps sufficiently indicated by its title, and in the third the tales will be "Told by Canaries." "But they will not be pretty tales, by any means," writes our London correspondent, "and will probably cause a good deal of trouble to the author and to others. Mr. Louwyck, however, seems quite prepared to face whatever trouble may arise out of his campaign against abuses which he alleges exist in connection with the church."

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Deaths, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 28 August 1944, p 8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43217926:

Louwyck.—On August 18, at his residence, 85 First avenue, St. Pters, Henry Napoleon Louwyck, aged 81 years.

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Obituary, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 23 September 1944, p 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43221449:

The Rev. Napoleon Henry Louwyck, who died at St. Peters recently, was born at Houthen, Belgium, on September 15, 1863. He entered the Order of Capuchins in September, 1884, and later was established at Lahore and the Punjab, India. He retired from the order by special dispensation in March, 1900, eventually left the Roman Catholic Church, and was received into the Church of England in June, 1909. He married Miss Judith Hauschel in 1910. He left England in 1916, and was priest-in-charge of the Yorketown district, and rector at Yankalilla in 1922, from which he retired in 1937. Apart from his church work, Mr. Louwyck was an authority on Egyptology, archaeology, and anthropology: was past president of the Anthropological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of SA. He published several books, notably "In Quest of Truth," "Mental Indefiniteness," "Mental Struggles and Stumbles," and was half-way through another. "Mental Bondage," at the time of his death. He had his own small printing press, set his own type, and printed and bound each book, limiting the number from 100 to 150 copies.

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Fr Frank Cresp, Good and Faithful Servants: Recalling the Spirit of the Deceased Priests of the Diocese of Port Augusta and Port Pirie 1888-2008, 2008:
Louwyck, Napoleon Henry

Born: Belgium.
Ordained: 1892.
Worked in Carrieton?; Pekina?; Port Pirie 1900; Georgetown 1903; Port Pirie 1908.
John Norton's Diary March 1908: "Newspapers report that Louwyck had left."
January 1909: ''Advertiser on Louwyck's defection and pamphlets, Poor fool."
Received into Church of England: 1910. Had a curacy in Manchester before returning to South Australia.
David Hilliard writes in the Adelaide Church Guardian: "In religion Louwyck was a Modernist - a rare breed among Anglican clergy in SA. He wrote a number of Books, printed on his own press, in which he expounded his unorthodox views and attacked religious dogmatism. The Diocesan authorities kept him in remote country parishes." viz. Southern Yorke Peninsula Mission 1916-22; Yankalilla 1922-37.
Address from 1937: 85 First Avenue, St Peters.
Died: 18/8/1944. Buried in West Terrace Cemetery.
Publications listed in the catalogue of the State Library of SA:
The effects of alcohol on the human system (1906).
The Clerical Jungle (1909).
The Pope: a commentary on the teaching of the Vatican (1913).
In quest of truth (1939).
Mental struggles and stumbles through the ages (1941).
Mental indefiniteness (1942).
Mental Bondage (1943).
The social order and the press (1943).

(Reproduced with the approval of Sister Mary Cresp RSM)