Category: Books
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Coal dust and sugar in the blood
Queensland researcher Dr Maree Ganley’s history of the Queensland Diocese of Rockhampton makes extensive reference to the role of lay people and local Catholic Action movements.
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Race Mathews, A life in politics
Race Mathews’s contributions to Australian government and public policy now get the full recognition they have long deserved in Iola Mathews’s splendid biography, Race Mathews: A Life in Politics, writes former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans.
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Book: Joseph Cardijn Rediscovered
ACI is pleased to announce the publication of Stefan Gigacz’s new book entitled Joseph Cardijn Rediscovered, which was launched with a special Synod edition during the Lay Mission and Vocation Conference in Rome on 11 October 2024.
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15% Christmas discount from ATF Press
Thanks to executive officer, Hilary Regan, himself a former YCS leader, ATF Press is offering a 15% Christmas discount on a range of books and journals, including Cardijn Studies.
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Bob Wilkinson’s ‘New visions of priesting’
Jenny Brinkworth reviews a new book based on a series of interviews with Fr Bob Wilkinson with Hilary Regan.
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Book & Webinar: Bill Armstrong: “Everything and Nothing”
Former YCW leader, Bill Armstrong, will speak on his life and work in our next ACI webinar on 13 December 2022.
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Review: ‘A World after Liberalism’
In the past few years, several murderous racists have shown a strange interest in demarcating their complicated relationship with Christianity, writes Jeet Heer at Commonweal.
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Cardijn’s classic ‘Challenge to Action’ relaunches
New ebook edition to be launched by Mgr Frank Marriott