Catherine Kovesi, Pitch Your Tents on Distant Shores: A History of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti.
CATHERINE KOVESI, Pitch Your Tents on Distant Shores: A History of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti, Playright Publishing, Sydney 2006; ISBN 0 9489853 98 4; 460 pages, hbk. Everything about this book is vast: documentation, extent of historical background and...
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Some themes in Australian Catholic social welfare history.
Introduction The Catholic Church is a significant provider of social welfare across Australia. Less well known is the history of these services and also the individual and collective contribution of Catholics in the wider professionalisation of welfare practices. Traditionally, Australian social welfare history has emphasised the intersection...
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Robert Pascoe, The Feasts and Seasons of John F. Kelly.
ROBERT PASCOE, The Feasts and Seasons of John F. Kelly, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 2006; ISBN 1 74175 057 1; xx + 300 pages, pbk. By commissioning this biography of John F. Kelly, Monsignor Tom Doyle has ensured that a most significant personality of the Melbourne...
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Greg Dening, Church Alive! Pilgrimages in Faith 1956-2006.
GREG DENING, Church Alive! Pilgrimages in Faith 1956-2006, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006; ISBN 0 86840 843 3; 292 pages. Greg Dening was asked by the Jesuits to mark the sesquicentenary of their three parishes on the North Shore, North Sydney, Lavender Bay and Milson's Point. The original...
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Patrick Morgan, ED., B.A. Santamaria, Your Most Obedient Servant: Selected Letters: 1938-1996.
PATRICK MORGAN, ED., B.A. Santamaria, Your Most Obedient Servant: Selected Letters: 1938-1996, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2007; ISBN 978 0 522 85274 5 (hbk); ISBN 0 522 85274 2 (hbk); xvi + 575 pages. Bartholomew ('Bob') Santamaria (1915-98) has had an extraordinary and continuing influence in Australian public...
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Hardly a soft landing: the first Australian Foundation of the De La Salle Brothers--Armidale 1906.
The determination of the Australian Bishops to maintain a system of Catholic schools, despite the withdrawal in the 1870s of government aid to denominational schools, meant that they had to rely in the service of religious Sisters and Brothers. In effect, this meant especially appeal to Ireland as the...
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Br Conlon and the Tardun farm Scheme *.
Between 1897 and 1936 the Christian Brothers established a network of child welfare institutions in Western Australia that became known as 'The Scheme'. This consisted of the Clontarf and Castledare institutions, both Perth-based, with the latter catering for those under ten years of age; Tardun, an agricultural institution; and...
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John Braniff, And Gladly Teach: The Marist Experience in Australia 1872-2000.
JOHN BRANIFF, And Gladly Teach: The Marist Experience in Australia 1872-2000, David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne, 2006; ISBN 1 86355-114-X; viii + 248 pages. A book whose subject is the Marist Brothers in Australia, and which each of the Marist Brothers Provinces declined to publish, is likely to...
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Book notices.
PHILIP AYRES, Prince of the Church: Patrick Francis Moran, 1830-1911, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2007; ISBN 978 0 522 85373 5; xvi + 367 pages. The first published biography of Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney 1885-1911. A review is intended for the Journal in 2008. MARGARET ZUCKER, From...
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Patrick Francis Moran: the making of a scholar.
Patrick Moran was ordained to the priesthood on 19 March 1853 by Archbishop Antonio Luigi Bussi. This was by papal dispensation, as he was one-and-a-half years under the canonical age of twenty-four. He had been living in Rome since the age of twelve, from late 1842, when as an...
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Frank Rogan, History of Regional Colleges Archdiocese of Melbourne 1950-2005.
FRANK ROGAN, History of Regional Colleges Archdiocese of Melbourne 1950-2005, Catholic Education Office, Melbourne, 2006; ISBN 0 86407 334 8; vi + 108 pages. In 1972 Frank Rogan was appointed Supervisor of Secondary Education at the Catholic Education Office Melbourne. This role immediately immersed him in the...
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