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Fulton, Elaine. "Catholic belief and survival in late sixteenth-century Vienna : the case of Georg Eder (1523-1587)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13615.
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This thesis is a detailed study of the religious belief and survival of one of the most prominent figures of late sixteenth-century Vienna, Georg Eder (1523- 1587). Eder held a number of high positions at Vienna University and the city's Habsburg court between 1552 and 1584, but his increasingly uncompromising Catholicism placed him at odds with many influential figures around him, not least the confessionally moderate Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II. Pivoted around an incident in 1573, when Eder's ferocious polemic, Evangelische Inquisition, fell under Imperial condemnation, the thesis investigates three key aspects of Eder's life. It examines Eder's position as a Catholic in the Vienna of his day; the public expression of this Catholicism and the strong Jesuit influence on the same; and Eder's rescue and subsequent survival as a lay advocate of Catholic reform, largely through the protection of the Habsburgs' rivals, the Wittelsbach Dukes of Bavaria. Based on a wide variety of printed and manuscript material, this thesis contributes to existing historiography on two levels. On one, it is a reconstruction of the career of one of Vienna's most prominent yet under-studied figures, in a period when the city itself was one of Europe's most politically and religiously significant. In a broader sense, however, this study also adds to the wider canon of Reformation history. It re-examines the nature and extent of Catholicism at the Viermese court in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It highlights the growing role of Eder's Wittelsbach patrons as defenders of Catholicism, even beyond their own Bavarian borders. The thesis also emphasises the role, potential and realised, of influential laity such as Eder in advancing the cause of Catholic reform in the late sixteenth century. Thus it is a strong challenge to the existing, prevalent portrayal of the sixteenth-century Catholic laity as an anonymous and largely passive group who merely responded to the ministries of others.
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Spiteri, Laurence John. "Concordat provisions for the selection of bishops in Portugal and Austria in light of the 1917 and the 1983 codes of canon law." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Makojevic, Dragan M. "The Serbian Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church in the second half of the nineteenth century a study of the relationship between Metropolitan Mihailo and Bishop Strossmayer /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Reeves, Elizabeth Ann, and res cand@acu edu au. "The Church First Called Christian: the Melkite Church of Antioch." Australian Catholic University. School of Theology, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp147.26072007.
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The Catholic Church is made up of many church communities of different rites, with the main classifications being the Roman rites and the Eastern rites of the Catholic Church. With the influx of migrants especially since the Second World War there has been growth in Australia, in the number of Catholics belonging to the many Eastern rites including Byzantine Catholics, Coptic Catholics and Chaldean Catholics. The Second Vatican Council documents encouraged members of the Catholic Church of the Latin traditions to know and understand the rich traditions of the Easterners so that the full manifestation of the catholicity of the Church and full knowledge of its divinely revealed heritage are preserved. One can ask how familiar are Catholics of the Roman rites with the beliefs, practices, liturgy, devotions and historical development of the other rites in the Catholic Church? The aim of this thesis is to give understanding about the Melkite Catholic Church in Australia. It takes the reader on a journey from Antioch in Syria to Australia in the third millennium, showing that the Melkites trace their roots to Antioch where believers were first called Christians. This thesis elaborates on who the Melkites are by firstly looking at the origins of this church community and thereby establishing the authenticity of this church community since it was established by the apostles and their co-workers, with the apostles being empowered by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The thesis enumerates the key aspects of the early church at Antioch including theology, liturgy and the structure of the church, with these findings being foundational for the Melkite Church in Australia today. The thesis describes worship in the Melkite Church with emphasis on the development of this worship especially for the sacraments of Baptism, Chrismation and the Eucharist. It explains important ritual, symbols, architecture and artwork and concluded that these express the key beliefs of this church community. The fundamental dogmas in the Melkite Church are the teachings on the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation. The thesis elaborates on these dogmas explaining how they were important in the early church at Antioch and how understanding of them was developed by important theologians revered in the Melkite Church, in previous eras and today. The Christian faith is a living faith. In writing this thesis the importance of Tradition for God’s revelation to His holy people is emphasised. In its study of the sacraments of Baptism, Chrismation and the Eucharist, the thesis was able to show that the celebration of these sacraments was linked to the early church at Antioch. It especially looked at what was happening at the time of St John Chrysostom at Constantinople. This time frame saw the beginning of the development of the Byzantine Rite. There is elaboration on the link between the Byzantine rite (the rite of the Melkites today) and the Antiochene liturgy. As well the thesis expounded on the understanding of the three fold ministry of bishop, priest and deacon at Antioch and the importance of the ordained ministry today. It concluded that the four sacraments discussed above were foundational in the early church and are essential in worship in the Melkite Church today. The thesis explained important details about the sacraments of Marriage, Penance and the Anointing of the Sick. It especially explained the development of the Sacrament of Penance. The thesis acknowledges the validity of all rites in the Catholic Church and concluded that encouragement must be given for the preservation of the various rites in the Church. This is important for the Eastern Church communities as they contain a rich heritage, which is an integral part of the Church of Christ. An important conclusion was that the development of the church at Antioch must be understood in the light of Tradition the living and lived faith, which passes on all that the church believes and celebrates in its worship of the Holy Trinity. The Melkite Church of Antioch was first called Christian.
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McKenna, Eugene. "The influence of ecclesiastical and community cultures on the development of Catholic education in Western Australia, 1846-1890." Thesis, McKenna, Eugene (2005) The influence of ecclesiastical and community cultures on the development of Catholic education in Western Australia, 1846-1890. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2005. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/198/.
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Historians have generally tended to represent the pioneering Catholic mission in Western Australia as an homogenous ecclesiastical entity with little cultural diversity. With a few notable exceptions the nature of the Western Australian colonial Catholic mission is portrayed as a 'hibernised' form of Catholicism with an Irish clergy taking care of the pastoral needs of a predominantly working class Irish Catholic constituency. This thesis challenges the traditional paradigm as restrictive, and argues that it ignores significant contextual influences and veils the wider cultural tapestry in which the Western Australian pioneering Catholic mission proceeded.
The traditional analysis of the internal dynamics of the Catholic mission implies that there was a beneficial, almost symbiotic relationship between sympathetic bishops and their 'valiant helpers.' Internal conflicts concerning administrative issues have been represented as little more than mere personality clashes.
The thesis takes a more critical contextual approach and argues that the manifestation of internal dissension during this period can only be fully explained by taking account of external influences rather than local conditions. These influences include both Gallican and Ultramontane ecclesiastical perspectives as well as the individual community cultures that were transported from Europe to the Perth diocese by missionary personnel.
This new perspective corrects the more traditional approach which overlooked the different ecclesiastical approaches, orientations and community cultures that were represented within the colonial Catholic mission. This expansion of the existing interpretative paradigm through which historians view the West Australian Catholic mission in general and the development of the school system in particular marks a significant shifi in the existing historiography. As a consequence, scholars will in future take a more critical approach to the study of not only the Catholic education system but also the Western Australian Catholic mission in general. Rather than representing the definitive closing chapter it is intended that this work will invigorate renewed historical interest in the development of the Australian Catholic mission.
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McKenna, Eugene. "The influence of ecclesiastical and community cultures on the development of Catholic education in Western Australia, 1846-1890." McKenna, Eugene (2005) The influence of ecclesiastical and community cultures on the development of Catholic education in Western Australia, 1846-1890. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2005. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/198/.
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Historians have generally tended to represent the pioneering Catholic mission in Western Australia as an homogenous ecclesiastical entity with little cultural diversity. With a few notable exceptions the nature of the Western Australian colonial Catholic mission is portrayed as a 'hibernised' form of Catholicism with an Irish clergy taking care of the pastoral needs of a predominantly working class Irish Catholic constituency. This thesis challenges the traditional paradigm as restrictive, and argues that it ignores significant contextual influences and veils the wider cultural tapestry in which the Western Australian pioneering Catholic mission proceeded.
The traditional analysis of the internal dynamics of the Catholic mission implies that there was a beneficial, almost symbiotic relationship between sympathetic bishops and their 'valiant helpers.' Internal conflicts concerning administrative issues have been represented as little more than mere personality clashes.
The thesis takes a more critical contextual approach and argues that the manifestation of internal dissension during this period can only be fully explained by taking account of external influences rather than local conditions. These influences include both Gallican and Ultramontane ecclesiastical perspectives as well as the individual community cultures that were transported from Europe to the Perth diocese by missionary personnel.
This new perspective corrects the more traditional approach which overlooked the different ecclesiastical approaches, orientations and community cultures that were represented within the colonial Catholic mission. This expansion of the existing interpretative paradigm through which historians view the West Australian Catholic mission in general and the development of the school system in particular marks a significant shifi in the existing historiography. As a consequence, scholars will in future take a more critical approach to the study of not only the Catholic education system but also the Western Australian Catholic mission in general. Rather than representing the definitive closing chapter it is intended that this work will invigorate renewed historical interest in the development of the Australian Catholic mission.
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McNamara, Laurence James. "Just health care for aged Australians : a Roman Catholic perspective /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm1682.pdf.
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Pollard, Susan J. "An investigation of the Catholic Leadership Education Programme in South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EDM/09edmp772.pdf.
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Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Education, 1992.Analyses the Catholic Leadership Education Programme in the archdiocese of Adelaide in terms of the work of Paulo Freire and Carl Jung. Spine title: The Catholic Leadership Education Programme. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-260).
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Delaney, Elizabeth M. "Canonical implications of the response of the Catholic Church in Australia to child sexual abuse." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29095.
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Since the early 1980s the Church and society have been shocked and scandalised by incidents of child sexual abuse perpetrated by clerics and religious. During the past twenty years knowledge of sexual abuse has grown. With increased knowledge has come increased understanding of factors that affect offenders, that impact on the healing of victims. Church leaders in the church have not always responded well, to victims, to offenders and to communities. The Church has grown in understanding of how to respond to all who are affected by sexual abuse of children. Church and society continue to learn.
In 1996, the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference and the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes published Towards Healing, Principles and Procedures in Responding to Complaints of Sexual Abuse against Personnel of the Catholic Church in Australia. The following year, they published Integrity in Ministry: A Document of Ethical Standards for Catholic Clergy and Religious in Australia. The former document presents the principles and procedures for responding to complaints of misconduct and sexual abuse. The latter document presents standards for life and ministry for clergy and religious.
The Catholic Church in Australia responded to sexual abuse within the context of the Australian society, as did the church in each country. In presenting an overview of the response to child sexual abuse of both society and church in several countries besides Australia, the possibility exists not only for identifying similarities and differences, but also for understanding the reasons behind them.
In the 1980s knowledge of the complexities of sexual abuse and its impact on victims was very limited. Likewise familiarity with the church's penal law and related procedures was limited because it had not been used to any great extent. Increased and new usage of both penal law and procedural law identified areas that caused problems.
At the heart of the church's response to sexual abuse is the goal of responding to the dignity of the human person. Hopefully, identifying differences and problem areas will result in increased understanding and the upholding of the dignity of all people affected by sexual abuse.
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Gleeson, Damian John School of History UNSW. "The professionalisation of Australian catholic social welfare, 1920-1985." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of History, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/26952.
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This thesis explores the neglected history of Australian Catholic social welfare, focusing on the period, 1920-85. Central to this study is a comparative analysis of diocesan welfare bureaux (Centacare), especially the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide agencies. Starting with the origins of professional welfare at local levels, this thesis shows the growth in Catholic welfare services across Australia. The significant transition from voluntary to professional Catholic welfare in Australia is a key theme. Lay trained women inspired the transformation in the church???s welfare services. Prepared predominantly by their American training, these women devoted their lives to fostering social work in the Church and within the broader community. The women demonstrated vision and tenacity in introducing new policies and practices across the disparate and unco-ordinated Australian Catholic welfare sector. Their determination challenged the status quo, especially the church???s preference for institutionalisation of children, though they packaged their reforms with compassion and pragmatism. Trained social workers offered specialised guidance though such efforts were often not appreciated before the 1960s. New approaches to welfare and the co-ordination of services attracted varying degrees of resistance and opposition from traditional Catholic charity providers: religious orders and the voluntary-based St Vincent de Paul Society (SVdP). For much of the period under review diocesan bureaux experienced close scrutiny from their ordinaries (bishops), regular financial difficulties, and competition from other church-based charities for status and funding. Following the lead of lay women, clerics such as Bishop Algy Thomas, Monsignor Frank McCosker and Fr Peter Phibbs (Sydney); Bishop Eric Perkins (Melbourne), Frs Terry Holland and Luke Roberts (Adelaide), consolidated Catholic social welfare. For four decades an unprecedented Sydney-Melbourne partnership between McCosker and Perkins had a major impact on Catholic social policy, through peak bodies such as the National Catholic Welfare Committee and its successor the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission. The intersection between church and state is examined in terms of welfare policies and state aid for service delivery. Peak bodies secured state aid for the church???s welfare agencies, which, given insufficient church funding proved crucial by the mid 1980s.
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Hollands, Jill C. "The changing nature of the Catholic school community." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/162.
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The role of the Catholic school, as outlined by Catholic leaders within dioceses around Australia and supported by Vatican documents, is to assist in the Church's role of proclaiming the message of Jesus Christ. Catholic schools aim to promote Gospel values within the daily life of their community. Integral to this expectation is the teaching of the traditions, doctrine, and practices of the Catholic faith, supported by the presence of Catholic educators. The shifting nature of Catholic schools has meant that in recent times, some members of the school community are not familiar with beliefs and practices of the Catholic faith. This growing world-wide trend indicates a changing community expectation of the role of the Catholic school, where dements of Catholic culture are at odds with the contemporary culture to which children are exposed in their daily lives. This portfolio examines the impact of the changing nature of the Catholic school community on the Catholic nature of Catholic schools. This impact is considered from both global and local perspectives. The Structure of the portfolio includes a document analysis of key literature related to this change, supported by a small, illustrative case study of four rural schools in Western Australia. Early chapters examine the structures of governance existing within both contexts and determine the extent to which these structures enable the Catholic school to fulfil the Church's mission. The portfolio outlines challenges faced by Catholic school communities in promoting the Church's Gospel value message through a Catholic values-based curriculum. The small investigation undertaken as part of the portfolio draws on both quantitative and qualitative data to determine the role played by the Catholic elements of schools in strengthening the promotion of the Gospel value message within the life of the school community. Conclusions are drawn to assist Catholic schools work toward strengthening the development of an authentic Catholic culture within the life of the school, and the implementation of a Catholic, values-based curriculum. These recommendations provide guidance for Catholic schools in developing a shared understanding of the Church's Gospel value message promoted within the life of the school community.
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Walton, Paul Harold. "Presbyteral Services of Ordination, 1977-1995 : The Uniting Church in Australia ‘within the faith and unity of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church’." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366640.
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This thesis examines whether the presbyteral ordination rite of the Uniting Church conforms to acceptable ecumenical practice in the western Christian tradition and thereby supports the claim that its presbyters are ordained as ministers in the Church catholic. It looks at the period 1977-1995, a particularly active time for the Commission on Liturgy in the writing of services of ordination. Appendix C outlines developments since that time.
The Uniting Church in Australia, formed from the union of Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in 1977, declares that it ‘lives and works within the faith and unity of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church’ (Basis of Union, para. 2; the Basis is the Uniting Church’s foundational document).
One consequence of this declaration is its claim to ordain its ministers of the Word (presbyters) as ministers in the Church catholic. This thesis examines whether the course that the Uniting Church has taken in its liturgical practices of ordination of ministers of the Word has been consistent with its own assertions; or whether, while still continuing to make the same claims, the Uniting Church has paid insufficient attention to the witness of the Church catholic.
The Uniting Church was formed as a Church that found the Faith in the sources received from the Church catholic—in Christ the Word, in the scriptures, in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, and in its foundational documents from the Protestant Reformation and the Wesleyan revival. Consistent with this, the members of the Joint Commission on Church Union sought to establish a ministry accepted by all, with a threefold ordering of bishops, presbyters and deacons. This goal proved elusive. The full working out of this vision involved
a proposed Concordat with the Church of South India. That Church would be invited to send bishops to ordain bishops in the Uniting Church, so that the sign of apostolic succession would be both given and received by the new Church. The Joint Committee on Church Union was unable to agree on this proposal, and so it was stillborn.
The Joint Committee could then have aimed lower, for a form of ordained ministry that was more narrowly-rooted in the traditions stemming from the Reformation and the Wesleyan revival. However, the ordination rite of the Uniting Church from 1977 onwards has seen ordination as conferred in the name of Christ through the authority of the presbytery ‘by prayer and the laying on of hands in the presence of a worshipping congregation’, as
mandated by the Basis of Union (para. 14(a)). It has also located ordination within the context of the eucharist; neither practice was inevitable, given that neither is practised by all Reformed churches.
In examining the question of whether the presbyteral ordination rite of the Uniting Church in the period 1977-1995 supports the claim that its presbyters are ordained as ministers in the Church of God, attention has been paid to the framework of James Puglisi. Puglisi’s schema of the process of admission to ordained ministry provides a lingua franca for this process from different traditions, and the thesis will show that the various revisions of the Uniting
Church’s rite of ordination follow this framework.
The principle of lex orandi, lex credendi is worked out in the Uniting Church predominantly by the conforming of liturgy to doctrinal statement. In the 1992 service this relationship of doctrine and liturgy was stretched almost to breaking point, though the Commission on Liturgy sought to mitigate the effects of the decision of the Sixth Assembly in 1991 (summarised as ‘one ordination, two accreditations’) that marked a distancing from the practice of the Church catholic. The Uniting Church’s commitment to having as ecumenically recognisable a ministry as possible is shown in the correction of this anomaly at the very first opportunity, at the Seventh Assembly in 1994.
As part of the background to the analysis of the Uniting Church’s claims to the ordination of its presbyters as part of the Church catholic, the forms that ministry took in the New Testament and early Church period are sketched, along with a discussion of ministry in various streams of the Protestant Reformation. Liturgies from the Apostolic Tradition attributed to Hippolytus, dating from perhaps the third-century, through the Reformation to the present day are also examined, particularly those that influenced the writing of Uniting
Church liturgies.
The various versions of the Uniting Church rite of ordination are commented upon, interspersed with a discussion of the debate that was occurring at the time in the Uniting Church Assembly, and—in the case of Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry—ecumenically.
The Basis of Union clearly states ‘the Presbytery will ordain by prayer and the laying on of hands in the presence of a worshipping congregation’ (para. 14(a)), and leaves room open for a renewal of the diaconate (para. 14(c)) and for an episcopal office (para. 16). The diaconate was renewed by the Sixth Assembly in 1991, which was implemented in an idiosyncratic way, by ordaining to ‘ministry in Christ’s church’ and then ‘accrediting’ to the ministry of the Word or the diaconate. Had this form of commissioning for ministry become
entrenched in the Uniting Church, this thesis argues that the Uniting Church would not be able to sustain the claim that it ordained ministers of the Word into the ministry of the Church catholic. However, the Seventh Assembly in 1994 overturned this decision, and re-established the ministry of the Word as a separate ordination.
This thesis concludes that because the form of the rite conforms to acceptable ecumenical practice in the western Christian tradition, and because the decision of the Seventh Assembly in 1994 enabled a restoration of ordination by prayer and the imposition of hands, the Uniting Church can indeed make the claim that it ordains its ministers of the Word as ministers of the Church catholic.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Carolan, Emma Claire. "Theological Challenges: The Australian Catholic Church Response to the Innovations of Pope John Paul II Regarding the State of Israel." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20885.
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This thesis presents the attitudes and perspectives of the Australian Catholic Church towards the modern State of Israel, and the theologies that these perspectives represent, as apparent during the tenure of Pope John Paul II. In doing so, it explores the theological perspectives of both Judaism and Christianity concerning the holiness of the Land of Israel and asks whether there is any connection between these perspectives and Pope John Paul II’s changes in terms of Vatican policy concerning the State of Israel. It achieves this through a detailed examination of the attitudes and reactions of the Australian Catholic Church towards the State of Israel and its interaction with the Australian Jewish communal leadership, exhibited through media and interviews with key individuals, during the tenure of Pope John Paul II (1978-2005), using the Australian Jesuit publication Eureka Street as an in-depth case study.
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Belcher, Helen Maria. "Resisting the Welfare State: An examination of the response of the Australian Catholic Church to the national health schemes of the 1940s and 1970s." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/712.
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This thesis extends and refines a growing body of literature that has highlighted the impact of Catholic social principles on the development of welfare state provision. It suggests that Catholic social teaching is intent on preserving the role of the traditional family, and keeping power out of the hands of the state. Much of this literature, however, is concerned with European experience (Esping-Andersen, 1990; Castles, 1993; van Kersbergen, 1995). More recently Smyth (2003) has augmented this research through an examination of the influence of Catholic social thought on Australian welfare policy. He concludes that the Australian Church, at least up to the 1970s, preferred a 'welfare society' over a 'welfare state', an outlook shared by the wider Australian community. Following the lead of Smyth, this thesis extends the insights of the European research through an examination of Catholic Church resistance to ALP proposals to introduce national health schemes in the 1940s and the 1970s. These appeared to satisfy the Church's commitment to the poorest and most marginalised groups in the community. Why, then, did the Australian Church resist the proposals? The thesis concludes that there are at least two possible ways of interpreting Catholic social teaching – a preconciliar interpretation that minimises the role of the state, and a postconciliar interpretation that allows for an active, albeit limited, state. The adoption of either is informed by socio-political factors. The thesis, then, concludes that the response of the Church in the 1940s and the 1970s was conditioned by socio-political and historical factors that inclined the Australian Catholic Church towards a conservative view of welfare.
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Belcher, Helen Maria. "Resisting the Welfare State: An examination of the response of the Australian Catholic Church to the national health schemes of the 1940s and 1970s." University of Sydney. School of Sociology and Social Policy, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/712.
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This thesis extends and refines a growing body of literature that has highlighted the impact of Catholic social principles on the development of welfare state provision. It suggests that Catholic social teaching is intent on preserving the role of the traditional family, and keeping power out of the hands of the state. Much of this literature, however, is concerned with European experience (Esping-Andersen, 1990; Castles, 1993; van Kersbergen, 1995). More recently Smyth (2003) has augmented this research through an examination of the influence of Catholic social thought on Australian welfare policy. He concludes that the Australian Church, at least up to the 1970s, preferred a �welfare society� over a �welfare state�, an outlook shared by the wider Australian community. Following the lead of Smyth, this thesis extends the insights of the European research through an examination of Catholic Church resistance to ALP proposals to introduce national health schemes in the 1940s and the 1970s. These appeared to satisfy the Church�s commitment to the poorest and most marginalised groups in the community. Why, then, did the Australian Church resist the proposals? The thesis concludes that there are at least two possible ways of interpreting Catholic social teaching � a preconciliar interpretation that minimises the role of the state, and a postconciliar interpretation that allows for an active, albeit limited, state. The adoption of either is informed by socio-political factors. The thesis, then, concludes that the response of the Church in the 1940s and the 1970s was conditioned by socio-political and historical factors that inclined the Australian Catholic Church towards a conservative view of welfare.
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Bond, Anne Cecilia. "From alienation to participation enabling participation in worship through embracing the "liturgy of the world" /." Chicago, IL : Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.033-0838.
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Tormey, Anne. "The beatification of Mary MacKillop: What it reveals of experiences of women in the contemporary Australian Catholic Church." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/982.
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The Christian faith in its Catholic expression continues to give meaning and direction to the lives of many contemporary Australian women. Nevertheless, for many women conscientised to the reality of patriarchal sexism the experience of belonging in the church is one of recurring struggle, Mary MacKillop in the nineteenth century cofounded the Sisters of St Joseph to address the educational needs of poor children in isolated areas of Australia. Her tenacity in maintaining a degree of autonomy for her institute led to her excommunication a11d to subsequent painful experiences of opposition from male ecclesiastics. In her lifetime she was regarded us a saint. Her beatification in Sydney by Pope John Paul II in January 1995 was a national, as well as a civic and religious event. My thesis is that her beatification mirrors even as it appears to contest the marginalised place of women in the Australian Catholic Church. This study approaches the beatification of Mary MacKillop through the interpretive lens of feminist philosophy and Christian feminist theology. In exploring the ways in which the event reveals both subtle and overt forms of patriarchal sexism operative within the contemporary Australian Catholic Church it utilises qualitative research methods. An analysis of the interview data of Catholic women selected from varied backgrounds, from different parts of Australia is central to the study, because the experience of these women constitutes a key theological resource. Written and visual documentary accounts of the event arc also analysed. This research identifies some of the major sites of struggle for women in the church. It also signals that there is a gap between papal conceptions of Christian womanhood and women's actual experience of what has been and what continues to be influential for them. The evidence reveals that this national, civic and religious event was primarily due to the agency of the Sisters of St Joseph. It raised awareness within their institute of the difficulties and challenges for women in the church and of the wide concern with spiritual issues within Australian society. The public liturgy to celebrate the beatification of Mary MacKillop conveyed powerful but conflicting messages for many women. Women interviewed in this study vary in their interpretation of the beatification. Many have major difficulty with the whole concept of sainthood, the processes of canonisation, the publicity and commercialisation associated with the beatification and the role of the Pope within it, given his theology in relation to women. Their resistance however was restrained by the desire not to diminish in any way Mary MacKillop in the past, nor the Sisters of St Joseph in the present. Most of them concur that overall the promotion of this woman was for the good. For most of the women in this study, their role models are not saints, but contemporary women, or women they have known through mutual relationship. Their awareness that patriarchal sexism constitutes a major distortion of the gospel of Jesus Christ leads some women to question their own forms r collusion. Many women seek new ways to express their faith and to deepen their spiritual search, while continuing to claim their Catholic identity.
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Mckenna, Eugene. "The influence of ecclesiastical and community cultures on the development of Catholic education in Western Australia, 1846-1890." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070326.142406.
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Historians have generally tended to represent the pioneering Catholic mission in Western
Australia as an homogenous ecclesiastical entity with little cultural diversity. With a few notable
exceptions the nature of the Western Australian colonial Catholic mission is portrayed as a
'hibernised' form of Catholicism with an Irish clergy taking care of the pastoral needs of a
predominantly working class Irish Catholic constituency. This thesis challenges the traditional
paradigm as restrictive, and argues that it ignores significant contextual influences and veils the
wider cultural tapestry in which the Western Australian pioneering Catholic mission proceeded.
The traditional analysis of the internal dynamics of the Catholic mission implies that there
was a beneficial, almost symbiotic relationship between sympathetic bishops and their 'valiant
helpers.' Internal conflicts concerning administrative issues have been represented as little more
than mere personality clashes.
The thesis takes a more critical contextual approach and argues that the manifestation of
internal dissension during this period can only be fully explained by taking account of external
influences rather than local conditions. These influences include both Gallican and Ultramontane
ecclesiastical perspectives as well as the individual community cultures that were transported
from Europe to the Perth diocese by missionary personnel.
This new perspective corrects the more traditional approach which overlooked the different
ecclesiastical approaches, orientations and community cultures that were represented within the
colonial Catholic mission. This expansion of the existing interpretative paradigm through which
historians view the West Australian Catholic mission in general and the development of the
school system in particular marks a significant shifi in the existing historiography. As a
consequence, scholars will in future take a more critical approach to the study of not only the
Catholic education system but also the Western Australian Catholic mission in general. Rather
than representing the definitive closing chapter it is intended that this work will invigorate
renewed historical interest in the development of the Australian Catholic mission.
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Seccia, Giovanni. "La missione cattolica in Sudan vista e vissuta da protagonisti ed osservatori tirolesi, 1858-1862 /." Roma : Missionari comboniani, 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53109847.html.
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Burley, Stephanie. "None more anonymous? : Catholic teaching nuns, their secondary schools and students in South Australia, 1880-1925 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EDM/09edmb961.pdf.
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Murray, Eamon. "A comparison between the theological approach of the 1992 Australian Catholic bishops' statement on the distribution of wealth in Australia, Common wealth for the common good, and some selected theological types." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1995. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1161.
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The Bishops of the Australian Catholic Church have been issuing annual statements on political, economic and social issues since 1940. The focus of this thesis, the 1992 Bishops' Statement, Common Wealth for the Common Good, has as its main theme the distribution of wealth in Australia. It is the culmination of a five year process of consultation and drafting by the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace (BCJDP), under the direction of its Executive Secretary, Dr Michael Costigan. This thesis attempts to identify the theological approach, or perhaps approaches. of the Bishops' Statement by comparing it to five selected theological types. Tile instrument used to assist in the comparison is comprised of a number of theological and socio-economic disciplines. Each of the types and the Bishops' Statement are analysed according to their use of the disciplines and then the Bishops' Statement is compared to the types to conclude whether it matches any one type in particular. This thesis concludes that the Bishops' Statement does in fact correlate almost exactly with one of the selected theological types.
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Angelico, Teresa 1956. "Can research influence policy decisions? : a project evaluation of a study of the role of the Catholic Church in higher education." Monash University, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7955.
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Dawson, Callum. "The reception of the Second Vatican Council’s vision of the lay apostolate within the Archdiocese of Hobart, Australia (1955–99)." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8yyyy.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore, synthesize, and reflect ecclesiologically upon the history of the reception and implementation of the Second Vatican Council’s vision of the lay apostolate within the Archdiocese of Hobart, Australia, focusing on the episcopacies of Archbishops Guilford Young and Eric D’Arcy (1955–99). Young became Archbishop of Hobart in 1955. He attended the Council and was an active member of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) and the Consilium responsible for the implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. For Young, this text promulgated a principle of adaptation applicable to areas of church life and mission beyond worship, including the lay apostolate. After Vatican II, he promoted a renewed appreciation for the dignity, equality, and shared responsibilities of the laity within the Archdiocese of Hobart. Amongst other conciliar documents, he was directly inspired by the Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes. During Young’s episcopacy, the reception and implementation of the Second Vatican Council’s teachings unfolded in two stages: 1) a period of structural reform which expanded opportunities for lay participation within the life and mission of the Archdiocese of Hobart (1964–81); 2) and a period of research and consultation in response to pastoral concerns (1981–88), which resulted in the calling together of a Priests’ Assembly (1984) and Diocesan Assembly (1986), and ended with the death of Young in 1988. Eric D’Arcy became Archbishop of Hobart in 1988. He sought to address the desire for renewal built-up in the previous decade by implementing a pastoral programme entitled “Renew” (1990–92), which encouraged lay Catholics to meet in groups amongst parishes and discuss their faith. During his episcopacy (1988–99), two movements emerged which promoted ecclesial paradigms and practices inspired by nostalgia for a pre-conciliar church of the past. 1) Catholics from Victoria organised protests against “Renew,” seemingly dissatisfied with the status of the Catholic Church in Australia since the implementation of post-conciliar reforms. 2) The reintroduction of the Latin rite during the 1990s became a point of tension within the Archdiocese of Hobart. Tensions and divisions between priests and laity continued to develop. A report drafted after dialogue groups were held amongst parishioners at the end of D’Arcy’s episcopacy (1999), recorded concerns that the archdiocese had moved away from conciliar teachings which envisioned the church as a pilgrim people. In conclusion, Young’s openness to adaptation inspired by post-conciliar liturgical reform impacted many areas of the Archdiocese of Hobart, including the lay apostolate. By contrast, D’Arcy’s episcopacy witnessed the emergence of two movements which either downplayed or directly opposed liturgical innovation and lay participation. In these instances, the concept of adaptation was either ignored or rejected.
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Foale, Marie Therese. "The Sisters of St. Joseph : their foundation and early history, 1866-1893." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phf649.pdf.
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Jarrett, Jennifer Ann. "Catholic bodies a history of the training and daily life of three religious teaching orders in New South Wales, 1860 to 1930 /." Connect to full text, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5673.
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Osborne, Paul James. "Sunday journalism in a Saturday world : a case study of Anglican and mainstream journalism in Australia / Paul James Osborne." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998.
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Journalists in the Australian Christian press are constrained by a range of factors from playing an emancipatory, or socially responsible, role similar to that played by their mainstream counterparts. This study examines the social theory ojjournalism and the role of the mainstream journalist, with particular regard to the social responsibility model ofpress. It then examines how this compares with the social theory and practice of religion and the role of the Christian press journalist, and specifically, those journalists working within the Anglican Church of Australia's diocesan news press. Following a
case study involving Anglican and mainstream journalists, it concludes that factors relating to resources, professionalism and proprietors play the most significant role in constraining Anglican journalists from fulfilling an emancipatory, or socially responsible, role within the Church.
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Jarrett, Jennifer Ann. "Catholic bodies : a history of the training and daily life of three religious teaching orders in New South Wales, 1860 to 1930." Phd thesis, School of Policy and Curriculum Studies in Education, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5673.
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Keenan, Anthony Michael. "The Boys' Reformatory Brooklyn Park : a history, 1898-1941." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ED.M/09ed.mk26.pdf.
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Voegler, Max Herbert. "Religion, liberalism and the social question in the Habsburg hinterland : the Catholic Church in Upper Austria, 1850-1914." Thesis, 2006. https://doi.org/10.7916/D86H60ZW.
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This dissertation focuses on the diocese of Linz in the Habsburg Monarchy during the second half of the nineteenth century, examining how the Roman Catholic Church and its priests adapted to and confronted the broad set of modernizing forces that were shaping the world around them against the backdrop of rising Ultramontanism within the Church. The study is divided into three sections. The first section explores the structural and ideological transformation of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria in this period. With a focus on the clergy, it examines the changing networks and structures of religious life; it investigates how the diocese changed under the watch of Bishop Franz Josef Rudigier (1853-1884) and Franz Maria Doppelbauer (1889-1908), and also under the influence of Ultramontanism. The second section examines the confrontation with liberalism. It begins in the 1850s, exploring how two events - the building of a general hospital in Linz and the burial of a prominent Protestant in a small town - inform our understanding of the dynamics of Catholic-liberal conflict in 1850s Austria. Next it turns to the height of the Austrian Kulturkampf between 1867 and 1875, exploring, how liberals and Catholic-conservatives presented a social vision that used the active exclusion of the 'other' to define itself. The third section shifts from liberalism to socialism, and from a study of the rise of Ultramontanism to that of Ultramontanism in practice. Examining Catholic responses to the social question, the study argues that Ultramontanism created its own internal set of contradictions when converted into policy, especially after the publication of the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum. Instead of bringing the different elements together within the Church, the encyclical had the opposite effect; each group began to interpret the document in different ways and to act accordingly, effectively demolishing the image of Catholic unity that existed around Ultramontanism.
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Wieland, Andreas. "Der runde Tisch Österreich - ein missionsstrategisch effizientes Modell für Einheit unter Christen? = ,,Der runde Tisch Österreich" - a mission strategically efficient model for unity among Christians?" Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1561.
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There is a great diversity of initiatives furthering unity among christians. Probably the most important ones are those of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Roman Catholic Church as such and the Lausanne Movement of the Evangelicals. The "Runde Tisch" (=Round Table) brings together Austrian christians from all parts of the christian scenario as a new initiative towards unity. To find out, which of these initiatives is the most efficient, from a mission-strategical standpoint, this thesis develops the New Testament findings on the question of unity. Then, the 4 models are presented to finally be compared, to find out, where each one has its strengths and weaknesses. The Round Table Austria with its great width of christians involved, its theological profoundness and its leadership structure with proportional engagement of members from all present parts of the christian body is indeed quite close to the New Testament picture of unity.Initiativen, die die Einheit unter Christen fördern gibt es sehr viele. Mit zu den wichtigsten zählen die des Weltkirchenrates (WCC), die Römisch-katholische Kirche als solche und die Lausanner Bewegung der Evangelikalen. Der Runde Tisch bringt in Österreich Christen aus allen Richtungen der Christenheit in eine neue Einheitsinitiative zusammen. Um nun herauszufinden, welche dieser Initiativen missionsstrategisch effizient ist, entfaltet diese Arbeit zunächst den neutestamentlichen Befund zur Frage der Einheit unter Christen. Dann werden die vier Modelle dargestellt und abschließend mit dem Ziel verglichen, herauszuarbeiten, wo die Stärken und Schwächen eines jeden Ansatzes liegen. Hierbei dient als Maßstab der Befund der neutestamentlichen Analyse. Der Runde Tisch Österreich liegt mit seinem breiten Spektrum an vertretenen Christen, seiner theologischen Tiefe und richtungsparitätischen Leitungsstruktur sehr nahe bei den neutestamentlichen Vorgaben zur Einheit unter Christen.
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Ferrington, Linda Mary. "Lay Ecclesial Leadership: ministries of the Catholic church in Australia." Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/41787.
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This thesis proposes that the narrative engagement of ethical leadership is foundational for contemporary Lay Ecclesial Leadership of ministries of the Catholic Church in Australia. It is argued that in the appointment of women and men as board directors it is essential to develop a clear articulation of the key competencies, character strengths and public values for lay ecclesial leadership of ministries of the Australian Catholic Church. The formation process proposed for such appointees has its foundations in the sacrament of Baptism, the Vatican II “universal call to holiness”, the vocation of the laity and Ignatian spirituality. Its manifestation is lived out in the ethical leadership of Walter Earl Fluker and the notion and practice of pilgrimage.
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MELNYK, Zoriana. "Catholic churches and mass mobilization in Austrian Galicia : 1890-1914." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/51584.
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Defence date: 01 February 2018Examining Board: Professor Pavel Kolář, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Pieter Judson, European University Institute; Professor Kerstin S. Jobst, Universität Wien; Professor Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University
For the citizens of Europe, the late nineteenth century was marked by the beginning of mass mobilization. In many states, including the Habsburg Empire, people were transformed from subjects into citizens and the representatives of certain political preferences and national identities. I research the beginning of this mass mobilization process with specific attention to the role of the Catholic Church in Austrian Galicia, as the Church was a leading social institution and set an example of action for its laity. With this thesis, I aim to contribute to the history of mass mobilization and social history by emphasizing the changes and challenges that the mass mobilization process brought to the Catholic Church (divided in Galicia into the Greek Catholic and the Roman Catholic churches) and its laity during the fin de siècle. The Greek and Roman Catholic churches, which I understand as consisting of high hierarchs, clergy, and laypeople, were important players in the mass mobilization process and managed to influence it dramatically. The beginning of mass mobilization challenged the strong position of the hierarchy and clergy and stimulated them to produce new strategies and values in order to remain influential and important, especially for their laity. By laity, I mean those who were part of these institutions, more precisely the peasants.
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Battams, Craig. "Church and school as community: an ecclesiological study of the relationship between the Adelaide Catholic Archdiocese and its secondary schools." 2002. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/58168.
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This thesis is an applied ecclesiological study of the relationship between the Adelaide Catholic Church and its secondary schools. The specific focus is on the interplay between theological confession and historical reality. The theological confession with which I have been concerned is the understanding that the church is a community. The Archdiocese of Adelaide has been described as a community of people called into mission in and for the world. Catholic schools have also been regularly described as communities that exist within the wider church community. This study has examined how and to what extent this theological confession has informed and been informed by the contemporary historical reality of Adelaide's Catholic secondary schools and their relationship with the local church.
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McNamara, Laurence James. "Just health care for aged Australians : a Roman Catholic perspective / Laurence James McNamara." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19142.
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Bibliography: p. 493-562.iv, 562 p. ; 30 cm.
Provides a philosophical and theological analysis of health care for aged persons, exploring the ways in which Roman Catholic moral theory might contribute to the development of just health care for aged Australians.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Public Health, 1998?
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Player, Anne V. "Bishop William Lanigan of Goulburn and the making of a Catholic people, 1867-1900." Phd thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148603.
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Mauro, Thomas J. "Praeceptor austriae : Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pius II) and the transalpine diffusion of Italian humanism before Erasmus /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3077065.
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Lynch, PJ. "Sing a new song : the forging of a new monastic musical voice in post-Vatican II Australia." Thesis, 2019. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/32987/1/Lynch_whole_thesis.pdf.
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The Second Vatican Council heralded a period of immense and often unprecedented change for all Roman Catholics, nowhere more so than in matters liturgical. Against the backdrop of Sacrosanctum Concilium, promulgated by Paul VI on December 4, 1963, and subsequent Vatican legislation, this dissertation investigates, through an ethnographic methodology, the responses to the challenges and opportunities that arose through the process of liturgical reform within the Australian monastic context.
The research focuses on four monastic communities, each of which welcomed the opportunity to participate: the Discalced Carmelite Nuns at the Carmelite Monastery in Kew, Victoria; the Trappist Monks at Tarrawarra Abbey in the Yarra Valley, Victoria; the Benedictine Nuns at Jamberoo Abbey, New South Wales; and the Benedictine Monks at New Norcia, Western Australia. It considers the liturgical music of each of these communities as it evolved over the period from 1960, two years prior to the commencement of the Council, to 2015, marking 50 years since its conclusion. Particular emphasis is placed on the dichotomy of the vernacularisation of their liturgies, and the concomitant necessity to develop sympathetic musical constructs, and the requirement, as mandated by the Council, to preserve the treasury of sacred music, especially Gregorian chant. It demonstrates that through their collective commitment and the expertise of individual musicians from within their ranks as well as further afield they have resolved, to a large extent, the inherent tension between the implementation of liturgical reform and the safeguarding of longstanding traditions in the Roman Church. It provides compelling evidence that, in so doing, they have not only succeeded but indeed excelled in forging a new monastic musical voice in post-Vatican II Australia.
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Mach, Pavel. "Český nacionalismus a vznik Církve Československé." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-389165.
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This paper describes nationalism as a phenomenon that has become an integral part of Czech society in the 19th century and its manifestations. It describes the main motives Czech nationalist ideology created by T. G. Masaryk. It also described the political situation during the First World War and the circumstances of the independent Czechoslovak state and its share in breaking the Austro - Hungarian monarchy. The work deals with the problem of modernism in the Catholic Church, whose adherents later became the founder of the Church of Czechoslovakia. Briefly describes the lives of the founders of the church and their relationship to nationalist political movements. The core of the work is the analysis of texts relating to the reform movement of the Czech Catholic clergy and the Czechoslovak church, from the period between 1906 - 1931, which is determined by the definition of nationalism seeks to assess its impact on the formation and other life Czechoslovak Church.
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Cappello, Anthony. "Italian Australians, the church, war and fascism in Melbourne, 1919-1945." Thesis, 1999. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15381/.
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There is no doubt that the Irish have played a
major part in Australian Catholic Church history, but I question the notion that they have been the only
contributor to the Australian Catholic Church in Australia.
Numerous Australian Catholic Church histories fail to acknowledge the Italian contribution at all. It comes as no surprise that none of the Australian Catholic Church histories(written to date) do not mention the Italian Jesuit fathers who were chaplains to the Italians in Melbourne,
Vincenzo de Francesco (1921-1934) and Ugo (Hugh) Modotti (1938-1945) and their influence in the life of the Catholic Church during 1919 to 1945. Those who do write about the Italian contribution begin their assessment after the Second World War and regard the Italians as latecomers. Yet, the evidence illustrates that there is sufficient data to demonstrate that there was an Itahan contribution before the end of the Second World War. In fact, there is considerable evidence revealed in this thesis that the Italian
contribution was not only important but also crucial in changing the nature of the Australian church from its predominately Irish beginnings.I n the years 1919-1945 there was a world war, there were fascists, communists and movements such as the Campion Society and Catholic Action, internments, major Episcopal changes, escaped POWs and
American secret agents, and associated in all of these areas was the Italian community, particularly its chaplains. This thesis argues that the Italian contribution to Australian Catholic history during the years 1919- 1945 cannot remain merely a footnote or a paragraph.
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Koutsoukos, Christina. "The journalist: a secular priest: how the news criteria or values of ‘secular’ journalistic practice are applied to the reporting of religion and religious issues in contemporary Australia: an examination of World Youth Day 2008." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1333613.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This project’s aim has been to examine what makes religion newsworthy in contemporary Australia. In July 2008, the biggest religious gathering in the country’s history was held in Sydney, New South Wales, host city of the 2000 Olympic Games. World Youth Day 2008 (WYD08) attracted more than one hundred thousand young Catholics from around the world. They converged to pray, sing and dance for their faith and to catch a glimpse of their hero and spiritual leader Pope Benedict XVI. This event literally brought religion onto the streets of a nation, which the pontiff and others had previously described as “Godless”. It was a “good news” story that graced the front pages of Sydney newspapers for more than a week, led television news bulletins, and was broadcast to over a billion viewers worldwide. A qualitative case study has been undertaken of print and terrestrial television news media coverage using mixed methods, coded content and thematic analysis, and practitioner interviews. This is supported by a discursive evaluation of news values that demonstrates how journalistic practice constructs and heightens “newsworthiness” through language and image at various stages of news story production. The papal brand was crucial in overcoming “cynical” opposition to and guaranteeing the success of - this “hybrid” religious media event (Pfadenhauer, 2010). WYD08 used large-scale pageantry to transform Sydney from a world-class party destination to a Holy City; one ready for its first saint. Overall, the news reportage concentrated on the “spectacle”, producing a narrative that in both style and substance circumvented examination of the religious, and by extension major issues confronting the Catholic Church, specifically, the clergy sexual abuse scandal. This approach obviated the requirement for journalists to have any specialist knowledge of the religious sphere, raising further questions about where religion may be situated in public discourse.
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Player, Anne. "Julian Tenison Woods 1832-1889 : the interaction of science and religion." Master's thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109337.
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Julian Tenison Woods died in Sydney on 7 October 1889. The various scientific
societies lamented the loss of one of their most prolific contributors and eulogised his
achievements. Newspapers and journals noted his passing and one obituarist predicted:
if young Australia possess any aspirations beyond the development of brawn and the
deification of sport, [then the memory of Woods], should shine for many a year to come
like a fixed firmamental star secure in the esteem of us all!
Yet interest in sport apparently triumphed over other aspirations, for the name of Julian
Tenison Woods, scientist, gradually slipped into oblivion. An attempt by Richard
Helms to immortalise him in 1896 by naming a spur in the Snowy Mountains, Mount
Tenison Woods, failed. The name fell into disuse. Woods, however, eventually received
some recognition because in 1975 a 780 metre crest in the D'Aguilar Range north-west
of Brisbane received his name. This belated honour resulted from the efforts of the
Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, a religious Order founded by Woods, not from agitation
by a group of scientists. If society at large forgot him, the religious Orders he founded
kept alive his memory although, with the circulation of pious reminiscences, it often
became less than real.
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Foale, Marie Therese. "The Sisters of St. Joseph : their foundation and early history, 1866-1893 / Marie Therese Foale." Thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21566.
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Cappello, Anthony. "To be or not to be an Italian: BA Santamaria, culture, descent and the social exclusion of Italian-Australians." Thesis, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/30074/.
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B.A. Santamaria is perhaps Australia's best-known thinker who happens to be of an
Italian descent and culture. While much has been written about this important thinker,
very little of this writing has focused on his background and the Italian descent and
culture from which he originated.
This doctorate is an historical exploration into the person of B.A. Santamaria, with a
strong focus on his Italian descent and culture. This thesis looks at the question of Social
Exclusion that applied to Italians in general, and in particular to B.A. Santamaria.
While mentioning the Australian Labor Party split of 1954-1955, this doctorate is more
concerned with episodes pertaining to Santamaria's background: Italian migrants, the
Aeolian Community, fascism, anti-fascism, the internment of Italian migrants, the land
settlement schemes of the National Catholic Rural Movement and Santamaria's own
admission later in life that his ideas were a product of his Italian background.
When looking at the ideas and organizations in Australia started by B.A. Santamaria, this
doctorate looks closely at this connection to his Italian background. Finally the question
is asked if B.A. Santamaria was our Italian-Australian hero.
Overall, this doctorate hopes to portray a more complete picture of B.A. Santamaria by
including and emphasizing his Italian background and the problems he may have
encountered in his work because of this background. It also highlights the social
exclusion of Italians in Australia by focusing on B.A. Santamaria.