150th Anniversary of the arrival of the Sisters of Charity in Australia 1838-1988

baptized a Protestant. Being a frail baby, she was taken to Nurse Mary Rorke at Eason's Hill to be nursed and for six years remained in the country air in the midst of a deeply religious family. At home again with her family, Mary attended Sunday Service at the Protestant Shandon Church. Mary was confused by the poverty of the Catholics contrasting with the well being of the Protestants. She enjoyed her visits to Mrs Stackpole's Catholic home, reverting to the famliar prayers Nurse Rorke had taught her and revisiting the much loved Catholic Chapel with its strange halo of purity and peace. During his last illness Dr Aikenhead, touched by his wife's passionately expressed sorrow, sent for a priest and after a long conversation, asked to be received into the Catholic Church. He died with great trust in God in December, 1801. In her sixteenth year Mary was baptized in the Catholic Church and received her First Communion and Confirmation. By the time she was eighteen she no

The Edinburgh Goldsmiths II: Biographical Information for Freemen, Apprentices and Journeymen

This book provides biographical information on the goldsmiths of Edinburgh emphasizing those connected to the Incorporation of Goldsmiths for the City of Edinburgh. It is novel in that the scope of the book extends beyond the freeman goldsmiths to include family information on centuries of apprentices and journeymen who entered training as goldsmiths in Edinburgh. Information is provided on parents, siblings, spouses and children when possible as well as details of the training and careers of the goldsmiths. The book is being published in a series of parts (individual files) that are alphabetical by surname. Part 1 contains an introduction and the letters A-C with approximately 318 biographical entries

Trinitarian leadership in an Australian Catholic healthcare ministry

My project is to refresh the spiritual leadership of Mission Leaders in St Vincent’s Health Australia, a Catholic health care ministry in order to best serve the mission of the healing ministry of Jesus. I have investigated contemporary Trinitarian theology to analyse the possibilities it holds to transform Mission Leader practice. I have found that it is the relational ontology of the Trinity, in particular three aspects; embodying the kingdom, building community and enabling transformation which hold the possibility of bringing forth the best opportunities for change

Begging and Alms-Giving in Urban Ireland, 1815-1850

Begging was a ubiquitous feature of pre-Famine Irish society. Mendicancy formed part of an 'economy of makeshifts', wherein the poor drew upon numerous welfare mechanisms to support themselves. The country's endemic poverty, coupled with traditional practices of alms-giving, ensured that mendicancy prevailed to a considerable extent. Beggary was never far from discussion and debate, in a period when the poor law question was arguably central to public discourse. This thesis examines contemporary efforts to define and measure mendicancy in Irish urban centres, as well as the many disparate ways in which beggars were perceived by all strands of society. The foundation of mendicity societies throughout Ireland reflected a growing concern among the urban middle classes towards the problem of street begging and in the decades before the establishment of the Poor Law system, these mendicity societies were the main cross-denominational medium through which mendicancy was approached. The five largest churches and religious societies each approached the question of beggary from different viewpoints. While certain traits in these approaches can be identified as being distinct to particular denominations, many overlaps in how Christians of different denominations perceived and responded to mendicancy were evident. Attitudes towards begging and beggars were coloured not alone by one's confessional allegiance but by social class and gender. The sheer scale of poverty and destitution during the Great Famine was without precedent and throughout Ireland, individuals and corporate entities struggled to cope with the unfathomable level of beggary. During this period of acute crisis, begging underwent transformations in how it was practiced and perceived

Partition and amalgamation among women's religious institutes in Australia, 1838-1917

This article is based on a paper originally given at the international colloquium, Religious Institutes and the Roman Factor in Western Europe 1802-1917, organised by the KADOC Centre, Catholic University Leuven, and held in Rome in May 2004

The Vincentian Family Tree: A Genealogical Study

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Laity and Clergy in the Catholic Renewal of Dublin C.1750 1830

The culture of Dublin’s Catholic community experienced many changes during the period 1750-1830. This evolution existed in many forms. Some, such as the renewal of chapels and erection of schools and seminaries, were physical. Others, such as the reorganisation of the parish system, were spatial transformations. The practices of Catholic piety also underwent radical transformation. By the nineteenth-century Catholics in Dublin could satisfy their appetites for private piety with Catholic literature. However, public piety was also catered for thanks to the establishment of a growing network of religious confraternities and sodalities. This reception of ideas, albeit by a minority of Catholics, did, however, have a gradual impact on the beliefs and practices of the wider Catholic community. Thanks, in part, to the marriage of private and public piety, increasing numbers of Catholics were becoming ‘religiously engaged’, playing visible roles in renewal and reform. Changes, such as the evolution of religious belief and practice were, however, less-tangible. Nevertheless, all contributed to the changing nature of Catholic culture in the archdiocese as the Catholic community assumed greater internal cohesion and enhanced social and political importance. It is to these aspects of Catholic culture that this study will concentrate. Changes in Catholic culture coincided not only with political reforms favourable to Catholics but also were influenced by deeply seated attitudes, habits and beliefs. From the 1770s there had been increased efforts by Catholics to petition for the repeal of the penal laws. Initially they were voiced by the dwindling land-holding Catholic aristocratic class. However, by the 1790s the movement had become dominated by Catholics of a lower social order. It was these ‘middle-class’ Catholics who were also the driving force behind the programme of religious renewal and reform in the archdiocese of Dublin