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St David's Anglican Church was dedicated in 1929.[15] Rathdowney Uniting (formerly Methodist) Church, 39 Running Creek Road, 2006 Palen Creek Methodist Church opened on Saturday 10 May 1913.[16] It was relocated to 39 Running Creek Road (28.2111°S 152.8680°E) in Rathdowney in 1957. In the 1970s it was further extended with the Glenapp hall and the Barney View Lutheran Church. When the Methodist Church became part of the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became the Palen Creek Uniting Church. It held its last service on Sunday 23 February 2014.[17][18] It is now in private ownership.[19] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathdowney,_Queensland

Stealing a generation of Aboriginal children from their families might have been legal but it was also immoral. Some of the white Australians involved in the theft might have believed that they were acting in the best interests of the children — the “good intentions” defense — but the policy itself was not concerned with the interests of the children. It was concerned with “breeding out” a race, that is, eliminating it. Source: publicintegrity.org/accountability/longtime-australian-po...

Before the construction of St Joseph’s Church, the Rathdowney Memorial Hall or Rathdowney School of Arts were used as Mass Centres for the spiritual needs of the people in the Rathdowney area. The Architect drew up the plans and construction began on the 11th of July 1929 and just 12 weeks later the building was completed. In its report, the Beaudesert Times described the building thusly: “The church is constructed of Queensland hardwood timbers in the walls and floors, with Queensland pine in the roof. The building comprises an entrance porch 11ft by 8ft, church 40ft by 23ft, sanctuary 15ft by 16ft, sacristy 9ft by 16ft. The walls are sheeted externally with hardwood chamfer boards and internally with pine lining boards. The ceiling of the sanctuary is lined with fibro-cement sheeting and covers battens and that of the church by pine lining boards. The sanctuary is divided from the church by an elliptical arch and the windows of the sanctuary are glazed with lead-light containing designs symbolic of the Crucifixion, the Holy Eucharist, and St Joseph. The glazing of the church windows is in the light rose-tinted glass. Externally, the walls are painted cream-white with brown facings and the sashes of the windows and barge boards of the gables in light stone tints. Internally, the walls are painted with a dado in brown tints and walls in French grey, and the ceilings in cream white. The roofs are finished with gables and half-timbering and ventilator dormers. The altar is a very handsome one of silky oak and the two pedestals for statues are also of silky oak.” (Beaudesert Times, September 29, 1929) St Joseph’s Church was blessed and opened on the 29th of September 1929, by Archbishop Duhig, ably assisted by the Parish Priest, Father Hennessy, and by his curate Father Tom O’Callaghan. Source: www.stmarysbeaudesert.com/our-churches/st-josephs-rathdow...