Biography of st benedicts library sydney

Biography of st benedicts library sydney

Benedict's School, Broadway: a History of a Catholic School

Author: Kelvin Canavan

Published by: Catholic Education Office Sydney, Leichhardt, NSW Sydney,

in association with the University of Notre Dame Australia,

ISBN:

Paperback: pages; $15

A pattern of a community

Cyril Halley the late Columban priest and sociologist liked to say that when Catholics spread over Australia and New Zealand they had a pattern.

"First they'd build a school," he'd say, "then a tennis court and eventually a church." Halley was making the point that Catholic schools here were primarily about community building. The school building was where children were schooled in the basics, the four R's of reading, writing, 'rithmetic and religion, and where Catholics met as a community, Mass on Sundays as well as working bees, social occasions where young Catholics met and married their