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meant that he spent less than two years of his six-year reign in the diocese. In the absence of effective leadership, clergy disunity became rife, with a factional grouping forming around the
Franciscan priest Charles Horan. In 1871, when Sheil returned from a visit to Europe, Horan's faction alleged
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in Rome, was fiercely critical of Sheil's recruitment of priests from
Ireland. Of the 21 priests he had brought to the diocese, the report stated that one had died, one had such poor health as to be useless, five had been dismissed for impropriety, five had insufficient knowledge to be effective as
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and sought to bring the charitable activities and schools operated by the
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newspaper ran an article highly critical of the bishop's treatment of MacKillop and her order. Fox was then ousted by the
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Matthew Quinn. Murphy and Quinn travelled around the diocese, inspecting parishes and collecting evidence. Having concluded their investigations, they expelled
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priests and six had become involved in diocesan factionalism. Not only, the report alleged, had only two of the twenty-one recruited priests been useful, but many of them had known deficiencies before Sheil recruited them.
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