the catholic church part D

By lachlan macleod

  • Caritas begins in Australia

    Caritas began in Australia in 1964 as the Catholic Overseas Relief Committee (CORC). It's initial focus was to distribute funds the Catholic Church had received for overseas relief from the United Nation's 'Freedom from Hunger' campaign.

  • Kathleen Mary Egan

    Kathleen Mary Egan (1890-1977), Dominican Sister and educationist, was born on 16 December 1890 at The Rock, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, third child of Richard Egan, a railway stationmaster from Ireland, and his native-born wife Catherine, née Connors.

  • Edward Bede Clancy

    Australian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988.

  • Mabo

    Mabo was an Indigenous Australian man from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius.

  • Native title

    Native title is the recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have rights and interests to land and waters according to their traditional law and customs as set out in Australian Law. Native Title is governed by the Native Title Act 1993

  • Elizabeth Durack

    In 1997 the art world was shocked by the announcement from Western Australian artist Elizabeth Durack, that she and Aboriginal artist, Eddie Burrup, whose work had recently begun to appear in art galleries and exhibitions of Aboriginal art, were one and the same person.

  • Fr John Brosnan

    From his birth of Irish parents on 12th April, 1919, at Keilambete near Terang, in a small community where there were few Catholics, John Brosnan learned to reach out to the wider community. He went to the State School at Cudgee, St Mary’s Christian Brothers at Geelong, before spending his last four years at Assumption College, Kilmore. He played one game with the first eighteen, but was carted off ten minutes into the first quarter.

  • Catholicism becomes largest religious group

    While there were dramatic shifts in the regional distribution of the Catholic population between 1910 and 2010, some of this change is due to different rates of overall population growth. Europe, for example, was home to 24% of the people in the world in 1910.

  • Fr Frank Fletcher

    One of the founders of the Archdiocese of Sydney's Aboriginal Catholic Ministry (ACM) and one of the city's most well-known and beloved priests, Fr Frank Fletcher MSC is gravely ill.