Podcasts
Meredith Lake, Under the skin? The contested history of the Bible in Australia (ACHS talk, 18 Oct 2020)
Janice Garaty, ‘The Spanish Flu and its impacts on Catholic Church activities‘, (ACHS talk, 20 Sep 2020)
Paul Crittenden, ‘David Coffey, theologian of Spirit‘, (ACHS talk, 16 Aug 2020)
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
Service for death of Pius XI, 1939
Archbishop Kelly, “Oldest bishop in world”, 1940 … funeral
Cardinal Gilroy welcomed home from Rome, 1946
Derby Leprosarium lab and orchestra, last 5 mins of Stuart Gore’s North-West Diary, 1948
Cardinal Spellman and Fulton Sheen visit Sydney, 1948
Mannix at Melbourne Diocesan Centenary, 1948
Mannix, aged 97, interviewed on his life, 1961
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’s recollections of Vatican II and aftermath, 2016
Pell interviewed by Victorian Police in Rome (excerpt) … (full)
Different views outside the Victorian Court as Pell returned to jail, 2019
Cardinal Pell interview with Andrew Bolt after his acquittal, 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