Category: People
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Remembering Fr Bob, the larrikin priest – and YCW chaplain
Melbourne is mourning the passing of Fr Bob Maguire, a priest well-known for his work with the poor in inner city South Melbourne and elsewhere.
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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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RIP Peter Maher
This month we remember Sydney priest, Fr Peter Maher, who died of cancer on 8 November 2022.
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Remembering Fr Chris Warnock
This month we farewell Fr Chris Warnock, a former YCW chaplain from the Port Pirie Diocese in South Australia, who died on 3 March 2021 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease.
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Kevin Vaughan, ACI life member
ACI board members have made founding president, Kevin Vaughan, a life member of the institute following his resignation from the board at the beginning of December.
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Peter Robinson, a champion fundraiser
“Activist priest Father Peter James Robinson, awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his outstanding work with people with disabilities, was a shrewd, down to earth, very Australian Catholic priest,” writes Dom Dimattina.
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Frank ‘Charlie’ Hornby remembered
This month we note the passing of former Melbourne YCW leader and chaplain, Frank “Charlie” Hornby, who died in Canberra on 12 September surrounded by his wife, Geraldine, and their children and grandchildren.
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Remembering Brazil’s bishop of the poor
“The ‘Avanguardistes’ and the ‘Fejocistes’ and their songs helped initiate me with an intuition or ideal of sacred struggle,” recalled Catalan-born Brazilian Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga Pla in his 1975 book “Yo creo en la justicia en la esperanza” (I believe in justice and hope).
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Vale Fr Mick Wheeler
This month we say goodbye to Fr Mick Wheeler, a former Melbourne YCW fulltime secretary, who later became a priest.
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RIP Lesley Campbell
30 June 2020 witnessed the funeral in Adelaide of former YCW full time worker Lesley Campbell. In a true sign of our times, it was conducted online due to the Coronavirus.
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Remembering Mike Bowden
Former Richmond footballer and recent PhD graduate from Yarra Theological Union and the University of Divinity, Mike Bowden, died on Holy Saturday, 11 April this year, after a long battle with Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
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Visit by Fr Mike Deeb OP
Our first international visitor this year will be Fr Mike Deeb O.P., a former YCS chaplain in South Africa and also former chaplain to the International YCS and International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS).
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Bishop Angelelli beatified
A former JOC chaplain, Bishop Enrique Angelelli, and three companions, Franciscan Fr Carlos Murias, French priest Fr Gabriel Longueville, and lay catechist Wenceslao Pedernera, who were all martyred by the military during Argentina’s military dictatorship, have been beatified.
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Singapore’s Tony Tay wins 2017 Magsaysay Award
Asia’s Nobel Peace Prize equivalent, the Ramon Magsaysay Award has gone to Singaporean former YCW leader, Tony Tay, for his work in creating the Willing Hearts movement.