150 Years of Pyrmont Peninsula
150 Years of Pyrmont Peninsula

Author: Colin F. Fowler

Publisher: ATF Press

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1925486907

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St Bede's Catholic Church in Pyrmont Street is the oldest, continuously functioning church on the Pyrmont peninsula. The Sydney Morning Herald article on the laying of the foundation stone (7/2/1867) stated that, when completed, the new church would be "a very neat and elegant structure".

People of the Risen King
People of the Risen King

Author: Elizabeth Willis

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780646966458

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St Jude's in Carlton is now one of the largest and most diverse parishes in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. People of the Risen King tells the story of the founding, early growth, faltering, survival and renewal of this inner-suburban Christian community over the last one hundred and fifty years.

University of Lost Causes
University of Lost Causes

Author: Larry J McCLoskey

Publisher: Castle Quay Books

Published: 2024-07-07

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1998815161

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After serving as Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger did a stint at Harvard whereupon he said, “University politics makes me pine for the relative peace of the Middle East.” Which sets the stage for ubiquitous murderous intent, mysterious multiple murders, identity politics run amok, and satire for the absurd age in which we live." University of Lost Causes is a novel for our absurd and troubled times. It is a creative, humane, and unique treatment of a controversial topic that can be enjoyed regardless of one’s personal politics. This character-driven novel is antithetical to taking entrenched and polarized political stances that have become endemic in these uber serious, humorless times. St Jude’s University, a fictitious New England university, at an unspecified time after Covid, is determined to become the most woke ivory tower in the world. Thank God things don’t always turn out as planned.

Thank You, St. Jude
Thank You, St. Jude

Author: Robert A. Orsi

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0300162693

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St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help. Robert A. Orsi tells us that the women who were drawn to St. Jude--daughters and granddaughters of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Ireland--were the first generations of Catholic women to make lives for themselves outside of their ethnic enclaves. Orsi explores the ambitions and dilemmas of these women as they dealt with the pressures of the Depression and the Second World War, made modern marriages for themselves, entered the workplace, took care of relatives in their old neighborhoods, and raised children in circumstances very different from those of their mothers and grandmothers. Drawing on testimonies written in the periodicals devoted to St. Jude and on interviews with women who felt their lives were changed by St. Jude's intervention, Orsi shows how devotion to St. Jude enabled these women to negotiate their way amid the conflicting expectations of their two cultures--American and Catholic.