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Australian Catholic Historical Society Inc. Program for 2022
This information is correct as at 29 Nov 2021, but changes can occur.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 February | Remembering Timor 80 Years On: The Australian and Japanese Invasions of Portuguese Timor (images) | Sr Dr Susan Connelly rsj. Author of forthcoming book, East Timor, René Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy |
| 20 March *1:30 pm start | *1:30pm AGM; 2:00pm Presentation: The Cathedral Folly: the origins of the 1960 plan for a vast “Brutalist” cathedral at New Norcia (podcast) | Dr John Challis Formerly: Dominican theologian, Head, ABC Science Unit and International Relations Executive, ABC |
| 10 April | Historical perspectives from the newly formed collection of rare books and manuscripts at the ACU (podcast) | Dr Hugh Myers Special Collections Advisor Australian Catholic University (Sydney) |
| 15 May | Writing Australian Catholic history: A case study – “Riverview” | Mr Gerard Windsor Novelist, literary critic and essayist. Author of The Tempest-Tossed Church |
| 19 June | A place for faith in the public square (podcast) | Prof Francis Campbell Vice-Chancellor, University of Notre Dame Australia |
| 17 July | Anzac Day Sydney, 1916. An Origin Story: How the Anglican Church laid the foundations for Australia’s National Day of commemoration (slides; podcast) | Dr Darren Mitchell, formerly Director, NSW Anzac Memorial, Sydney |
| 14 August | Walking the synodal path of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia – a reflection (slides; podcast) | Dr Helen Belcher Co-chair the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle Diocesan Pastoral Council |
| 18 September | Champagnat Marists in Australia: 1872-2022 (slides; podcast) | Dr John Luttrell Author of: Norman Thomas Gilroy: An obedient life; Formerly: President ACHS and Editor, JACHS |
| 16 October | Heavens Below: Religion on ABC Radio from the 1940s to the Present (slides; podcast) | Professor John Potts Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Macquarie University |
| 20 November | The story of St Mary’s Spires – the completion of Polding’s program | Mgr Tony Doherty Former Parish Priest of Rose Bay and former Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral (Sydney) Co-author of The Attachment |
| 10 December | Annual Mass and Christmas Lunch. Speaker: Dr Anne Thoeming. An invitation from the grave: writing a biography of Herbert Moran (podcast) | Mary MacKillop Place, North Sydney. Mass 11.45, then lunch |
Melbourne Program
Melbourne Meetings resume in 2022
Times and dates: 2:00 PM on Mondays 7 March, 6 June, 5 September and 14 November
Location: Yarra Theological Union Study Centre, Classroom 1. 29 Albion Street Box Hill. Time: 2pm. Contact: Matthew Beckmann, OFM. Email:
See also the program of the Brisbane Catholic Historical Society.
