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1800s

The First Catholics in Australia

Early Foundations of Catholic Schools

Religious Education and Irish Spirituality

In the Library

The Catholic Church and Community by Patrick O'Farrell
Call Number: 282.94 OFA
ISBN: 0868402257
Publication Date: 1992-06-01
The Catholics in Australia by Robert Dixon Traces the history of the Catholic Church in Australia including its organisation and activities. It researches the location of the Catholics in Australia including their age, gender, birthplace, family types, language groups and Catholic immigrants and immigration.
Call Number: 282 DIX (Snr Campus)
ISBN: 9780644459143
Publication Date: 1996
Discovering the Catholic Church in Australia by Maurice Ryan Discovering the Catholic Church in Australia surveys the story of the development of the Catholic Church in Australia from the time of European settlement until the present.
Call Number: 282 RYA
ISBN: 9781921538285
Publication Date: 2013

Online Resources

Catholics in Australia: History Catholic Australia website
The History of the Catholic Church in Australia - Organisations and People Access to a libguide on organisations and people who made a significant contribution to the Catholic Church in Australia

Challenge, change and faith: Catholic Australia and the Second Vatican Council

1900s

Communism

Post War Immigration

The Second Vatican Council

Changing profile of the Australian Catholic Church

Changing Profile of the Australian Catholic Church
Post-War immigration has impacted upon mainstream Christianity and impacted upon it in unexpected ways.

In the Library

Friendly Guide to Vatican II by Max Vodola When the bishops of the Catholic world gathered in the Vatican in 1962 for the Second Vatican Council, they initiated a process of change which would restyle the way Catholics worshipped and celebrated liturgy. Younger Catholics today might know that the council brought about the celebration of the mass in the vernacular, but they might not realise the enormous implications for the greater participation of the laity in the liturgy.
Call Number: 262 VOD (Senior Campus)
ISBN: 9781921946301
Publication Date: 2012

ABC Radio National

Vatican II and the Australian impact On October 11, it will be 50 years since the Second Vatican Council began. The promise of Vatican II was for a more open church, with much greater involvement of Catholics in the pews. It’s a question that Catholic theologians and activists pondered at a conference in Melbourne. ABC Religion producer and presenter Noel Debien is preparing a series of reports on the 50th anniversary of Vatican II and its impact in Australia. In the first report, Dr Ruth Powell and Robert Dixon, researchers from the National Church Life Survey, discuss what the data shows about Catholic identity since 1962.
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Transcript on webpage

Immigration Today

Migration, Australia, 2013-14

Australian Bureau of Statistics Fact Sheet
Top 20 Religions in Australia (2006 & 2011)
Australia’s Migration Trends 2013–14 at a glance

The Catholic Community in Australia: A Profile
Catholics are the largest religious group in Australia. According to the 2011 Australian Census, Catholics made up just over a quarter (25.3 per cent) of the Australian population: there were 5,439,268 Catholics in a total Australian population of 21,507,719. In the five years between the 2006 and 2011 Censuses, the number of Catholics increased by over 312,000, or 6.1 per cent.

YouTube

2000s

Mary MacKillop

World Youth Day in Australia

Immigration Today

In the Library

Receive the power : World Youth Day Sydney Australia 2008
Call Number: 259 REC (Senior Library)
The story of Mary MacKillop by Bernadette Doyle, Lila El-Hage, Anne Walsh.
Call Number: 271 MAC
ISBN: 9781875938001
Publication Date: 1995
The MacKillop papal visit 1995 : the beatification of Venerable Mary MacKillop Cover title: The official MacKillop papal visit book 1995.
Call Number: 235 MAC (Senior Library)

Media articles

World Youth Day trip extraordinary: Pope "Pope Benedict XVI has described his trip to Australia for World Youth Day as "an extraordinary experience" which demonstrated the youthful face of the Roman Catholic Church..."

Online Resources

MacKillop, Mary Helen (1842–1909) Australian Dictionary of Biography
Saint Mary MacKillop

The Catholic Church in Australia: Home

1800s

In the Library

Online Resources

Challenge, change and faith: Catholic Australia and the Second Vatican Council

1900s

Changing profile of the Australian Catholic Church

In the Library

ABC Radio National

Immigration Today

YouTube

2000s

In the Library

Media articles

Online Resources

Mary MacKillop (Behind the News)