Catholic Heritage

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By Laura Meli

In January, Maureen Hedigan donated two historic letters to the Bequest Office of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. One, received in 1938, was a personal thank you to her father John Hedigan from Mgr Lonergan, the administrator and chancellor of the Archdiocese and later Bishop of Port Augusta.

The Advocate: St Patrick's Day 1920

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By 1920, St Patrick’s Day was an established festival for Melbourne’s Catholics and the associated celebrations were annually reported in The Advocate. But the celebration for that year, held on Saturday 20 March, was particularly memorable for several reasons outlined in the 25 March issue of The Advocate, which featured a green cover page and extensive reports and photographs.

The AdvocateWho was Aunt Patsy

Away from The Children’s Corner, ‘Aunt Patsy’ was better known as Marion Miller Knowles MBE, a published author and philanthropist.

The Advocate:The Children's Corner

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By Rebecca Comini

The most sought after pages of The Advocate for its younger generation of readers was The Children’s Corner. Introduced to the newspaper in 1900, the page were edited by ‘Aunt Patsy’.

Kairos: Volume 22, Issue 1

By Deacon Anthony Gooley

Gaudium et Spes (83-93) encourages cooperation and coordinated activity through local and international organisations to foster the common good of all people. It does so not merely for good economic reasons and as a means to promote justice and peace but for theological reasons too.

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This issue, Kairos begins a regular column in which we pay tribute to one of Australia’s great newspapers, The Advocate.

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James Knox was born in Perth in 1914. He began studies for the priesthood at the Benedictine Abbey of New Norcia and later transferred to Propaganda Fide College in Rome. Ordained in 1941, he was appointed to the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1948 as assistant to Mgr Giovanni Montini (later Pope Paul VI).

Archbishop Daniel Mannix (1864 - 1963)

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Born in Charleville, County Cork in 1864, Daniel Mannix was ordained to the priesthood in 1890 and embarked on an academic career, obtaining his doctorate in 1895 and immediately proceeding to teaching positions at Maynooth in philosophy and moral theology.

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Thomas Carr was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1839, the year in which the Catholic mission in Port Phillip was established. He was ordained a priest in 1866 and became professor of dogmatic theology at Maynooth. Fr Carr was consecrated Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in 1883.

Family connections

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By Celeste Badman

The Archdiocese of Melbourne recently hosted visits from relatives of past archbishops. In September, Joe Mannix, a close relative of Archbishop Mannix, visited from Cork, Ireland. In late November, Carolyn Ferry, a relative of Archbishop Carr, and Triona Cody, a relative of Cardinal Knox, visited the Melbourne Archdiocese.

Vatican II: The sacraments

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 21

By Deacon Anthony Gooley

Sacrosanctum Concilium outlines three purposes of sacraments: to sanctify human beings; to build up the body of Christ; and, to give worship to God (SC §59).

Sacraments presuppose faith and they also nourish, strengthen, and express it. Because they are sacraments of faith we must view them primarily through the eyes of faith. Faith does not create the sacraments – the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ even if received without faith – but this is a reality which can only be grasped by faith.

Christ the King

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The Solemnity of Christ the King is celebrated on the last Sunday of the liturgical year, before a new year begins with the First Sunday of Advent. It was universally instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 in his encyclical Quas Primas. At the time, secularism and dictatorships were on the rise and respect for Christ and the Church was declining.

Vatican II: Sharing the Eucharist

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 20

By Deacon Anthony Gooley

I was recently at Sunday worship in an Anglican church where I had gone with some neighbours to hear the choir, which had a reputation for excellence. I was surprised when it came to communion time that the minister invited all who were baptised to come forward to receive communion.

Vatican II - Interpreting the Bible

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 19

By Deacon Anthony Gooley

One area of confusion about Catholics and the Bible concerns private interpretation. Many Reformers (16th century) taught that any individual Christian guided by the Holy Spirit could understand the truths of the Bible. Churches that developed along these lines from the Reformation often call this private interpretation. Sometimes they may say two or three Christians assembled is sufficient.

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 18

A further reflection on Interpretation

By Deacon Anthony Gooley

There are some things in the bible which, from a modern historical, scientific or geographic point of view, could be called “errors”. But the Scriptures were not written to give us this kind of information, but to lead us to salvation. Dei Verbum (DV) teaches that “the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation” (DV 11).

Vatican II: Going back to go forward

Volume 21, Issue 17

In the half-century or so leading up to Vatican II there had been a great burst of scholarly activity in Biblical studies, liturgical studies, patristic studies and history, as well as new developments in theology, especially ecclesiology (theology of the nature and mission of the Church).

Vatican II: An ordered communion

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 16

Liturgical services are not private functions but are celebrations of the Church, which is the ‘sacrament of unity’, namely, the holy people united and ordered under their bishops (Sacrosanctum Concilium 26).

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 15

The reforms of the Liturgy which emanated from Vatican II did not emerge in a vacuum. Before the Council Pope Pius XII had already encouraged frequent communion and the use of the Latin-English Missal for the laity which was produced at this time for the purpose of increasing active participation and understanding of the rites. He had approved various experiments in the Liturgy that were aimed at increasing active lay participation.

Vatican II: Popular devotions

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 14

Popular devotions are those devotional practices that have often arisen spontaneously from the grassroots. Some of these may have been popularised and promoted by religious orders, such as the Rosary by the Dominicans, and others by individual laity wanting to deepen the faith of ordinary Catholics.

Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 13

The bishop is to be considered the high priest of his flock, from whom the life in Christ of his faithful is in some way derived and dependent (Sacrosanctum Concilium 26). When a deacon or priest presides at the Liturgy he greets the congregation with one of the approved formulas that announce the presence of the Lord, such as “the Lord be with you”.

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