2020 Program - Australian Catholic Historical Society

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Australian Catholic Historical Society Inc. Program for 2020

Sydney Program

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. Members and non-members are welcome to join us in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Attendance is free but a gold coin donation for afternoon tea is welcome. Enquiries to: Dr John Carmody, President ACHS:

DATE	TOPIC	SPEAKER
16 February	Catholic rural virtue: ideal and reality … (text … `podcast`)	Professor James Franklin. UNSW. ACHS Vice President and Journal Editor.
15 March *1:30 pm start	1:30pm Annual General Meeting CANCELLED 2:00pm Presentation:* Les Murray’s sacramental poetics. CANCELLED	Dr Stephen McInerney Poet and Executive Officer The Ramsay Centre
19 April	“Answering the call”: Sydney’s Irish Catholic doctors in the Great War CANCELLED	Honorary Assoc. Professor Paul Lancaster Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
17 May	The Quiet Man: a new film about Fr John Neill. Movie available by this link	Fr John Neill OP OAM Formerly: Councillor, University of Notre Dame Mr Tim Perkins Director The Quiet Man
21 June	The Catholic clergy – prisoners of history CANCELLED	Fr John Crothers Formerly PP Penshurst and Peakhurst and author of The Clergy Club.
19 July	Pastor aeternus: 150 years since the promulgation of “On the infallible teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff” -the binding dogma of “Papal Infallibility” … PODCAST	Dr Paul Collins. Author and broadcaster, formerly: ABC Radio National Emeritus Professor Robert Gascoigne. Theologian, formerly: Australian Catholic University
16 August	David Coffey: Theologian of Spirit (PODCAST)	Emeritus Professor Paul Crittenden. Formerly: Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts, University of Sydney
20 September	The “Spanish Flu” and its impacts on Catholic Church activities (PODCAST)	Dr Janice Garaty. ACHS Councillor and historian. (Author of Providence Provides: Brigidine Sisters in the New South Wales Province)
18 October	Under the skin? The contested history of the Bible in Australia (PODCAST)	Dr Meredith Lake. ABC Radio National (Religion Department). Winner: NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize (2019) for The Bible in Australia: a cultural history
15 November	A quiet revolution in Australia: bringing home a practical response to “Vatican II”. Celebrating the life and achievement of the Institute of Counselling in Sydney. (PODCAST)	Ronald Perry, Founding Director (ICS) and Psychologist; Dr Alison Turner, Second Director (ICS) andCounselling Psychologist; Bryan Gray, Consultant Psychologist and long-term lecturer (ICS)
12 December	Annual Mass and Christmas Lunch	CANCELLED

Melbourne Program

Melbourne Meetings 2020 Date: Monday 2 March. Time 2:00pm Speaker: Janette Elliott. Topic True knowing vs. unknowing of love in Julian of Norwich’s interpretation of our ‘marvelous medley both of weal and woe‘

Other Dates and times. Cancelled for 2020.
Location: Yarra Theological Union Study Centre, Classroom 1. 29 Albion Street Box Hill. Contact: Matthew Beckmann, OFM. Email: