“Everywhere I go I am asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” (Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction,” in Mystery and Manners, Occasional Prose selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993/1969, 84-85.)
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2 November, 2009
COMMON GOOD LECTURE 2010
Professor Hilary Charlesworth will deliver the Common Good Lecture in the evening of Wednesday March 17 2010, in the the Dixson Room at the State Library of New South Wales. The Common Good Lectures ...more »
5 October, 2009Nazareth is Blessed and Opened
Bishop Kevin Manning of Parramatta blessed Nazareth, Aquinas Academy's place of solitude and silence at Colo on Sunday the 20th of September, 2009....more »
22 June, 2009FR DONALD COZZENS TO LECTURE IN AUSTRALIA JULY 2010
Donald Cozzens is Writer in Residence and Adjunct Professor of Theology at John Carroll University in Cleveland. He spent the 2001-2002 academic year as a scholar at the Institute for Ecumenical and C...more »
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17 November, 2009FLANNERY O'CONNOR AND DIALOGUE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Flannery O\'Connor challenges Catholics to move beyond doctrinaire responses. She is in tune with the Second Vatican Council, Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, all of whom called us to di...more »