Caroline Chisholm Library

15/12/2020

As we plan for 2021 for our venerable library... perhaps we can think of news ways of bringing books to you

Librarians are amazing.

08/12/2020

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/romes-secret-libraries.html?fbclid=IwAR0w_2EsQqHI8ro0Xxvu-5_-xq91x3k6Qw3KVhE_LVjRM3qPJw13DJxpLB4

Libraries, too, in the silence and splendour of their spaces hidden from outside view, preserve the history of peoples. Check out our guide to Rome's most beautiful libraries.

29/10/2020

This treasure, the Book of Lismore, is a late medieval Irish manuscript that has been call a whole library of learning, piety and entertainment.
It includes the only surviving Irish translation of the journeys of Marco Polo, lives of the saints, poetry and histories.
The manuscript is a precious reminder of the rich culture of Irish Munster

mediahttps://www.ucc.ie/en/news/one-of-the-great-books-of-ireland-returns-home.html

News, press releases, social media, press office details for University College Cork (UCC)

02/10/2020

Veteran journalist and active Library member, David Kehoe reviews Ed. Pentin's in-depth study of the "papal" form guide- "The Next Pope"
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/david-kehoe-book-review-of-the-next-pope-leading-cardinal-candidates/

24/09/2020

Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Ransom also known as Our Lady of Mercy. The Blessed Virgin appeared in 1218 in separate vis...

08/09/2020

Further to the sad news of the death of Fr Mankowski, here is new s of the live-streamed Funeral Mass for the repose of his soul.

05/09/2020

Vale Fr Paul Mankowski S.J. (1953- 3rd August, 2020)
The Caroline Chisholm Library community joins many in prayer and sorrow at the news of the sudden death of Fr Paul Mankowski S.J. this week.
To call him an outstanding and incisive man of letters would be to radically understate the man.
At the time of his sudden death, Fr Mankowski, had been Scholar-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute augmenting the courses at the University of Chicago and offering popular classes in scripture, ethics and the humanities. He was born in South Bend Indiana, then a steel-manufacturing centre. He never lost his respect for the working man or woman. His adult life was one of outstanding academic, he gained a M.A. from Oxford and a PhD in Semitic Philology from Harvard University. He was a lecturer for many years at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome but was most well known for his many sharply crafted articles on literature, language and the life of the Church.
Most will remember him as an outstanding priest, whose devotion to the faith and to the Catholic Church was both clear-eyed and outspoken.
In 2003 he delivered a memorable lunchtime talk which was given to a full-house at the Caroline Chisholm Library : Catholic Liturgy and the Language of Worship

I remember being taken, as a child of three years, to the local parish church during the Holy Week Triduum, and being deeply moved in seeing that the crucifix above the altar and the other images of the saints were covered in dark cloth. I recall the feeling of loss and of a peculiarly sombre emptin...

28/04/2020

Some excellent leadership shown in the Archdiocese of Paris- here is an article by Library Committee member Anna Krohn

16/04/2020

Watch Archbishop Peter A Comensoli's 2020 Easter message, and be encouraged. https://buff.ly/34G28nv

10/04/2020

The Anima Women's Network has assembled audio meditations, Stations of the Cross and a few reflections assisted priests and women from Perth to the Western Victoria Region. They may assist.

In these unfamiliar days of the sacred three days (The Triduum of the Paschal Mysteries) each of us is confined physically to our domestic spaces- which Anima hope can become tiny – domestic Church…