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By Julie Thorpe

This booklet tells the tales of ladies and males of the Aquinas Academy, a centre of grownup schooling in Sydney based in 1945 via an Australian Marist priest, Austin Woodbury. The booklet areas the non-public narratives in the social, cultural and highbrow panorama of Australian Catholicism spanning seven a long time. Chapters hint the founding imaginative and prescient of the academy as a Catholic establishment of upper schooling affiliated with Saint Thomas Aquinas’s collage in Rome, the growth of programmes of grownup spirituality around the jap Australian states and the starting to be position of contemplative and mystical prayer in a church rediscovering its non secular center. Combining archival study and conversations with former scholars and employees approximately youth, conflict, kin and the struggles to make experience of losses and loves, the Aquinas Academy is a narrative finally approximately adults studying to develop up.

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