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‘Unspeakable horror’: Australia marks 30 years since Port Arthur Massacre
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has deplored the “unspeakable horror” of the Port Arthur Massacre, as Australia marks 30 years since its worst mass shooting. Source: The Australian.
Exhibition traces Canberra’s cathedral, community through time
A steady flow of patrons have week visited a one-week exhibition that traces the people, plans and quiet ambition that shaped Canberra’s Catholic story. Source: Catholic Voice.
Lecture series on Australian Church history set to begin
Brisbane Archbishop Emeritus Mark Coleridge will next month deliver the opening lecture of a monthly series sponsored by the Australian Catholic Historical Society. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Archdiocese launches program to digitise historic treasures
From pre-Vatican II vestments to handwritten sacramental registers, Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese’s archives are home to an extraordinary collection of historic treasures. Source: Catholic Voice.
Cathedral service honours victims of Holocaust
A service to honour the victims and survivors of the Holocaust was held in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral in Adelaide last week. Source: The Southern Cross.
Notre Dame historian offers new insight into the Kennedys
A historian at the University of Notre Dame Australia has scooped her American colleagues with a “micro-history” of the Kennedy family. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Exhibition a reminder of impact of WWII atomic bombs
Amid tensions of global nuclear warfare and 80 years since the atomic attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a new exhibition is highlighting the long-lasting impacts of the bombings. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Catholic Historical Society creates YouTube channel
The history of the Catholic Church in Australia, with its heroines and heroes, saints and sinners, politics and art, is mostly recorded in often-inaccessible books. Now, it can be accessed on YouTube. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Labor ‘stands ready’ to add antisemitism studies to school curriculum
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare “stands ready” to reform the school curriculum so children are taught more about antisemitism, declaring there was a role for teachers in educating young people about the “poison” of bigotry towards Jews. Source: The Australian.