The Annual Newman Lecture

Inaugurated in 2013 it is named after Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman the famous 19 ^th century Englishman who converted from Anglicanism and was an intellectual and cultural giant. He inspired the Catholic movement in universities in the English speaking world after Catholicism was one again legalised. In fact many of the university Catholic societies were originally known as Newman Societies. This annual lecture allows the different university Catholic societies and chaplaincies and their alumni to come and learn from the great teachers of our time.

Stay in touch with your local university chaplaincy and Catholic society if you would like to attend with them as a group.

Past Newman Lectures:

2013: Sr Therese Auer O.P. Nashville, PhD.  Distorted Love: Contraception, held at the University of Sydney Law School.

2014: Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Archbishop of Manila. The Church in Asia: Joys, hopes griefs and anxieties, held at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

2015: Debate between Prof. Peter Singer, Princeton University and the Most Rev. Dr. Anthony Fisher, O.P. Archbishop of Sydney. Should Voluntary Euthanasia be legalised? Held in Sydney Town Hall.

2016: Christopher West, 'God, Sex & the Meaning of Life', held at the Seymour Centre, Sydney University.