Podcasts
Paul Collins and Robert Gascoigne, ‘Pastor aeternus; 150 years since the promulgation of papal infallibility‘ (ACHS talk, 19 July 2020)
James Franklin, ‘Catholic rural virtue in Australia: ideal and reality’ (ACHS talk, 16 Feb 2020) … (text)
Fr Tony Doherty’s ‘Priests I have known’ podcasts
B.A. Santamaria interviewed by Phillip Adams, 1996
Video lectures
Archbishop Mannix – a tribal icon, controversial prelate?
Jeff Kildea on Archbishop Kelly and the Quarantine Station Incident of 1918
Jeff Kildea on Where Crows Gather: The Sister Liguori Affair 1920-21
The Quiet Man (Fr John O’Neill), ACHS May 2020 presentation.
Newsreel
St Patrick’s Day, Melbourne, 1932
Eucharistic Congress, Melbourne, 1934
Eucharistic Festival, Sunbury Vic, 1938
Funeral of Archbishop Kelly, 1940
Cardinal Gilroy welcomed home from Rome, 1946
Derby Leprosarium lab and orchestra, last 5 mins of Stuart Gore’s North-West Diary, 1948
Funeral of Archbishop Mannix, Melbourne, 14/11/1963
A few seconds of B.A. Santamaria on Communism
Pope Paul VI’s visit to Australia, 1970
Sister Janet Mead’s rock version of the Lord’s Prayer, 1973
Pope John Paul II’s visit to Australia, 1986
Stations of the Cross, Bathurst Island, 1987
Mike Willesee investigates Signs from God, 2001 and The Blood of Christ, 2019
Sr Berenice Twohill recalls living through the Japanese occupation of Rabaul, 2003
Stations of the Cross, World Youth Day, 18/7/2008
Canonisation of Mary MacKillop, Rome, 18/10/2010
Cardinal Pell interview with Andrew Bolt, 14/4/2020
Stage and film representations*
The 1925 silent film Around the Boree Log dramatised “John O’Brien”‘s poems of rural Catholic life. (Part 1, 41MB) (Courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive)
Excerpt from Ron Blair’s ‘The Christian Brothers’ (1975)
‘The Devil’s Playground’ (1976) trailer … Fr Marshall’s (Thomas Keneally) hellfire sermon
Doubts about God in Peter Kenna’s ‘A Hard God’ (1980)
A clip from ‘Brides of Christ’ (1991 miniseries)
Mary MacKillop excommunicated, clip from Mary (1994)
The 1999 Paul Cox film Molokai starred David Wenham as Father Damien (trailer; full movie)
Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ (2004) trailer
‘MacKillop the Musical’ (2010) trailer
* We do not vouch for their accuracy