Category: Webinar
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Video: Pope Leo on Vatican II and the liturgy
Musician and liturgist, Fiona Dyball, will present our next ACI webinar on Wednesday 19 August looking at Pope Leo’s catechesis on the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on liturgy.
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Webinar: Remembering Ivan Illich: 1926-2026
This year marks the centenary the birth of Ivan Illich, one of the 20th century’s most provocative critics of modern institutions. Join us on 15 September as Dr Rose Calabretta, who studied with Illich reflects on her first-hand experience of his thought and teaching.
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Video: Pope Leo on lay people in the Church
Fr Max Vodola from Catholic Theological College and the University of Divinity will present the next ACI webinar on Wednesday 20 May 2026 looking at Pope Leo’s catechesis on the role of lay people in the Church.
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Video: Melbourne YCW Origins 1941
For our next webinar on 14 April, historian Dr Val Noone presents his recent book, “Melbourne YCW Origins 1941” exploring the beginnings of the Young Christian Workers in that city.
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Video: Cardijn Lecture 2025 – Archbp Tim Costelloe
Archbishop Tim Costelloe SDB of Perth, will present the Cardijn Lecture for 2025 on Thursday 13 November.
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Video: Pope Leo’s Dilexi Te
Fr Bruce Duncan CSsR presented the October 2025 ACI webinar on Pope Leo XIV’s first major document, the Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te on Love of the Poor.
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Webinar: Marcel Callo, YCW martyr
Thomas Gueydier, postulator for the cause for canonisation of French YCW martyr Blessed Marcel Callo, will be our guest for the next ACI webinar at 7pm AEST on 9 September 2025.
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Video: Economic collapse or cooperation?
“The time has come to think the unthinkable – the collapse of the American political and economic systems,” writes John Médaille, our presenter for the next ACI webinar at 10am AEST on Saturday 9 August 2025.
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Webinar: YCW in Australia today
For our July webinar, ACI is partnering with the Australian YCW for a special YCW Centenary event on Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 7pm AEST.
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Laudato Si’ at 10 – Hope or Despair?
Watch the video of the webinar organised by the Diocese of Parramatta Mission Education Team and ACI to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’.
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Webinar: Spirituality of co-operation
For our next webinar at 7pm AEST on 10 June 2025, ACI is partnering with 888 Cooperative Causeway in Melbourne to mark the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives.
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Video: Cardijn, Pius XI and the YCW
This month’s ACI webinar with Stefan Gigacz on 11 March 2025 marks the centenary of Cardijn’s landmark first meeting with Pope Pius XI when the pontiff gave his enthusiastic approval to the emerging movement of the Young Christian Workers (YCW).
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Video: Remembering Gustavo
Sr Angela Carroll rsj, Jorge Jorquera and Michael Elphick were our presenters for the first ACI webinar of 2025, remembering liberation theology pioneer, Gustavo Gutierrez.
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Webinar: The Young Worker Faces Life
For our December 2024, ACI webinar, Mark Ager and Joe Catania will recall Cardijn’s iconic lecture series, The Young Worker Faces Life.
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Video: Cardijn Lecture: Keegan at Vatican II
This year, ACI is pleased to announce that the Cardijn Lecture for 2024 will be delivered by Dr Patricia Jones on Thursday 14 November.
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Video: Chris Sidoti on human rights in Palestine
Australian international human rights consultant, Chris Sidoti, who is a member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, will present the next ACI webinar on 23 October 2024.
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Video: Discovering God through Action & Reflection
South African Dominican, Fr Mike Deeb O.P., formerly a leader of the Young Christian Students in South Africa before becoming its chaplain and later the chaplain of the International YCS, presented the ACI August webinar.
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Webinar dialogue: Promoting the mission and vocation of lay people
Dr Paul Lentern will present our ACI webinar for March 2024 addressing the theme “Promoting the mission and vocation of lay people.”
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Webinar: Bishop Eugene Hurley on the vocation and mission of lay people
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Vatican II document, Lumen Gentium, which presented the Church as the “People of God” and includes the pathbreaking Chapter 4 on The Laity.
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Cardijn Lecture: Reform or Revolution? The English YCS in ’68
ACI is pleased to announce that the Cardijn Lecture for 2023 will be presented on Thursday 13 December 2023 by Dr Alana Harris from King’s College London.
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Webinar: Laudato Deum
Our next ACI webinar on Tuesday 10 October 2023 will focus on Pope Francis’ newly announced apostolic exhortation, Laudato Deum, which is due to be published on 4 October.
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Webinar: Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940
Emeritus Professor James Franklin will address the subject “Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940” at our next ACI webinar on Tuesday 13 June.
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Webinar: The women of Vatican II: Sr Maureen Sullivan O.P.
For our next ACI webinar we are proud to present Sr Maureen Sullivan, who will share her research on the women auditors who attended and contributed to the Second Vatican Council.
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Cardijn’s Hour of the Working Class
Join us on 11 February for the first ACI webinar of the year with US Catholic Social Teaching specialist, John Médaille.