Tag: History

The Assyrians were a powerful ancient empire frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, known for both cultural achievements and military brutality. Their rise and fall shaped the history of Israel and Judah.

The Australian Catholic Historical Society offers monthly lectures on all sides of church’s past.

An historian at the University of Notre Dame Australia has scooped her American colleagues with a fascinating “micro-history” of the renowned Kennedy family. 

Significant staff cuts to the humanities at the Australian Catholic University have been roundly criticised by academics, who have raised questions over the university’s...

One of the tropes used by the cultural-left when denigrating conservatism is to attack it as backward looking, ossified and irrelevant. At the same time,...

Dear Father, In a number of passages of the New Testament it is clear that Jews and Samaritans were not on good terms. Who...

The fourth Plenary Council of Australia was held in 1937, mostly at the initiative of the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giovanni Panico. Its main aim...

When distinguishing between one’s contemporary culture and those that are foreign and in the past the English scholar and Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argues...

Learn from the past to stop anti-semitism and hate As a teacher of history, I often reminded my students of the adage, “those who forget...

The recent release of the revised Australian national history and civics syllabuses, once again, has ignited the debate surrounding the place of Western civilisation...

NEW HISTORY PICTURE BOOK DISCOVERING OUR PAST TELLS THE STORY OF ST THERESE CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL MASCOT IN ITS 80TH YEAR. Historical records show the blessing of the infants’...

I present a modest little program on ABC Radio National about faith in public life. We do something rather unique, covering the places where politics...