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This information is correct as at 4 February 2018, but changes can occur.
Sydney Meetings
| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| February 18 | A maker of the Australian Catholic Story: John McEncroe | Emeritus Professor Fr Edmund Campion: author, historian formerly Professor of History, Catholic Institute of Sydney. |
| March 18 | The bureaucratisation of Catholic schooling and the emergence of the Catholic Education Office | Br Dr Kelvin Canavan fms: Executive Director Emeritus Catholic Schools, Archdiocese of Sydney and Visiting Professor: University of Notre Dame and ACU |
| April 15 1:30 pm start for this meeting | 1:30pm Annual General Meeting 2:00pm Presentation: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Findings, implications, recommendations, future directions. Reflections from three senior members of the staff of the Royal Commission. | Mr Stephen Crittenden: Latterly: Lead Writer — Religious Institutions Volume; Formerly: Presenter, The Religion Report [ABC Radio] Ms Maha Melhem: Latterly: Lead writer — Information Sharing; Formerly: Director Policy & Legal, NSW Children’s Guardian; Senior Lawyer, Australian Law Reform Commission. Ms Anna Tydd: Latterly:Principal Policy Officer, Special Projects Taskforce; Formerly: Solicitor acting for the Dublin Archdiocese [Murphy Inquiry, Ireland ] |
| May 20 | Humanae vitae after 50 years: a retrospective panel | Professor Carole Cusack: Professor of Religious Studies, University of Sydney; Dr Bernadette Tobin AO: Director: Plunkett Centre for Ethics, Australian Catholic University and St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney; The Hon. Deirdre Grusovin AM: Formerly: MLC and MLA (NSW) and Cabinet Minister. |
| June 17 | In search of Cardinal Gilroy | Br Dr John Luttrell fms(Life-member: ACHS) Catholic Institute of Sydney and Broken Bay Institute. |
| July 15 | Humanae vitae: The beginning of the end of Tridentine Clericalism? | Emeritus Professor Desmond Cahill: Department of Intercultural Studies, RMIT University |
| August 19 | Catholic Social Justice and parliamentary politics. | Senator Susan Ryan AO: Formerly: Hawke government Cabinet Minister, latterly:Age and Disability Discrimination Commissioner |
| September 2 Not the usual 3rd Sunday. | Faith at “World’s End”: Father Angelo Confalonieri and the first Catholic Mission to Northern Australia | Professor Mark McKenna: Department of History, University of Sydney |
| October 21 | Their Eminences, an éminence grise, and ruffled feathers: the sometimes rocky voyage of St Patrick’s, Church Hill, within the Archdiocese of Sydney | Fr Peter McMurrich sm: Vicar Provincial and Archivist Marist Fathers’ Australian Province. |
| November 18 | In Paradise, under the sun: Francis McGarry and the rewards of missionary work in 1930s’ Alice Springs. | Dr Charmaine Robson: Independent scholar and 2017 Australian Religious Fellow of the State Library of NSW |
| December 15 | Annual Mass and Christmas Lunch Mass: 12:00pm. Lunch: 12:30pm. | MacKillop Centre North Sydney. Cost, booking details and speaker to be advised. |
Location, time and contact: Sunday afternoons at 2.00pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Crypt of St Patrick’s at Church Hill [Grosvenor Street], The Rocks. Admission is free and does not require membership of ACHS, but a donation is welcome.
Enquiries to: Dr John Carmody, President ACHS:
Melbourne Meetings
Monday 5 March. Speaker: Katharine Massam Topic TBA
Monday 4 June. Speaker: Graeme Pender. Topic TBA
Monday 3 September. Speakers: Max Vodola and Prof Jayme Anderson .
Topic: James Alipius Goold: A Baroque Bishop in Colonial Australia
Monday 12 November. Speaker and topic TBA
Location and Times: Seminar Room of Dorish Maru College, Box Hill. 2:00 to 3:30pm.
