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PERSONS OF INTEREST
  Walter Logue SJ
  Malcolm Joseph

Person of Interest

Fr. Walter Logue SJ

One allegation of abuse received. More information wanted.
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Logue, Walter, 1904-2002, Jesuit priest

Born: 10 May 1904, Derry, Co Derry
Entered: 31 August 1921, Tullabeg
Ordained: 31 July 1935
Professed: 02 February 1967
Died: 07 June 2002, Little Sisters of the Poor, Northcote, Melbourne, Australia

Part of the Campion College, Kew, Melbourne, Australia community at the time of death

by 1924 at Lyon France (LUGD) studying
by 1927 at Rome Italy (ROM) studying
by 1930 in Australia - Regency
1928-31 St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point
1932 Sevenhill, SA.
1937-38 Watsonia.
1939-40 Canisius College, Pymble.
1941-44 St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point
1951-54 St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point
1960 - 64. St. Louis School, Perth. (also at St. Louis in 1960 sex offenders Rev. Fr. G. Larkin, S.J. and Rev. Fr. H. Balding, S.J.)
1965-67 Corpus Christi College, Werribee
1968-84. St Ignatius' School, Norwood.
1979 Kostka Hall ( Headmaster was sex offender Fr G. M. Larkin, SJ and Person of Interest Mr Malcolm Joseph was there.).
1985 onwards chaplain to the elderly and sick, first at St Joseph's Hospital Geelong and then at St Vincent de Paul Hostel, Box Hill.
Spent his last years with the Little Sisters of the Poor at Northcote.


David Strong SJ “The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848-2015”, 2nd Edition, Halstead Press, Ultimo NSW, Australia, 2017 - ISBN : 9781925043280

Walter Logue's father, John, was a 'provision merchant', who arranged goods such as butter, pork and cereals to retailers.
Walter was educated at the National School, and St Columb’s College, Derry.
He entered the Society at Tullabeg, Ireland, 31 August 1921, and completed his juniorate studies at Lyon, France, and Rathfarnham, Dublin, 1923-25.

He was considered a capable student and sent to Rome to study philosophy at the Gregorian University, but had a breakdown and returned to Dublin where he completed philosophy.
Theology, 1932-36, was studied at Milltown Park, Dublin, and tertianship was at St Beuno's, Wales, 1936-37.
During his regency at St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point, 1928-31, he was remembered by his nickname, “Rosebud”, and for having “no notion of discipline”, and being “a perpetual volcanic fury”.

As a result of this experience he spent a year of rest at Sevenhill. He returned to St Aloysius College, 1941-44, and again, 1951-54, when he was remembered as a fearsome French teacher very liberal in the use of the strap.

However, he also contributed much to the intellectual life of the college as debating master, and for systematically building up the boys' library and for introducing the students to good literature, encouraging then to read regularly.
When teaching ethics to Jesuit scholastics, first at Watsonia, 1937-38, and then at Canisius College, Pymble, 1939-40, he was famed for his views on hunger striking.

Stan Kelly sparked off the issue with an article in the December 1939 issue of The Canisian, in which he contended that hunger striking as an abstinence from necessary food, was intrinsically wrong.

Logue contended that it had not been proved that abstinence from necessary food was intrinsically wrong.
Kelly replied, but Logue was still unconvinced by the arguments proposed.
It was suggested that this dispute contributed to Logue having a breakdown, disappearing one day and coming to himself confused, at Gosford.

Logue was a very sensitive, highly strung and delicate person, having suffered from tuberculosis.
In 1941 he returned to teaching French at St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point, or religion, French and Mathematics at St Louis School, Perth.

Probably because of the stress in a school classroom, Logue spent a few years as a spiritual director and teacher of Latin at the diocesan seminary, Corpus Christi College, Werribee, 1965-67.
He also gave retreats. Then he became a kind and gentle mentor and teacher to the junior boys at St Ignatius' School, Norwood, 1968-84.

He worked mainly in the library helping some boys with reading problems, and encouraged others to improve the quality of their reading.
Many appreciated his support, and the new school library was named after him.
He also kept up his scholarly interests, especially in moral theology
He taught biblical Greek to a small study circle of retired gentlemen in the Norwood parish, and led others through a reading course on Cicero's De Senectute.

Logue was a great defender of the faith, with traditional Roman thought and fidelity to the Holy Father.
However, he was happy with the new developments in religious education because love rather than authority was emphasised.
From 1985 onwards, Logue was chaplain to the elderly and sick, first at St Joseph's Hospital Geelong, and then at St Vincent de Paul Hostel, Box Hill. As the years passed, he became
increasingly deaf, and with a gradual deterioration in his health, he spent his last years with the Little Sisters of the Poor at Northcote.

Throughout his life, he had to struggle with poor health, with several breakdowns, with shyness, with the demands of a schoolmaster, with increasing age and deafness.
In spite of this, he remained a gentle, kindly spiritual person self-effacing, and lovable ever available to others.
He was always the priest in his way of teaching, dealing with boys, acting as chaplain, saying Mass and giving the spiritual exercises
At the time of his death he was the oldest Jesuit ever to have lived and worked in Australia.