Catholic Role Models
Focus question: How do clergy and lay people live the mission of Jesus?
Click on the websites below to begin your search for information:
St Mary MacKillop – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 21 resources, including DVDs
St Thomas Aquinas – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 6 resources
Caroline Chisholm – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 10 resources
Edmund Rice – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 11 resources, including several DVDs
Catherine McAuley – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 5 resources
Oscar Romero – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 7 resources including a DVD
Catholic Laity:
Moira Kelly – Website 1, Library – 1 resource
Patrick Dodson (civil rights activist; founding chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation) Website 1
Eleanor Josaitis – Website 1
Frederick Ozanam (founder of St Vincent de Paul) Website 1, Library – 4 resources including 1 DVD
Mum Shirl (Shirley Smith) (charity worker) Website 1, Website 2, Website 3, Library
Melinda & Bill Gates (philanthropists) – Website 1, Website 2
Tom Monaghan (Domino’s pizza founder, philanthropist) – Website 1
Barron Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels, philanthropist) – Website 1
Paul Ramsay (founder of Ramsay health Care, philanthropist) – Website 1
Gregory Craven (Vice Chancellor, Catholic University, Brisbane) – Website 1, Website 2
General Sir Peter Cosgrove (Australian of the Year, Commander of the Armed Forces, Present Governor General of Australia) – Website 1, Website 2
John F. Kennedy (President USA, humanitarian) – Website 1, Website 2
Seamus Heaney (Poet, Nobel Prize for Literature 1995) – Website 1, Website 2
Catholic Clergy / Religious:
Mother Teresa (worker with the poor in Calcutta) – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 27 resources in Library including a DVD
John Paul II – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 23 resources, including DVDs
Father Charlie Burrows (Indonesian Oblate Missionary) – Website 1, Website 2, Website 3, Library – Film on Clickview.
Saint Damien of Molokai (priest to lepers of Molokai) – Website 1, Website 2, Website 3, Library – 9 resources in college library, including the video “Molokai”.
Father Bob Maguire – Website 1, Website 2, Website 3, Library – DVD0643 Father Bob Maguire
Father Ted Kennedy (priest to the poor of Redfern) – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 253 KEN Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern
Father Chris Riley (helper of kids on the street) – Website 1, Website 2, Website 3, Library -2 resources
Father Frank Brennan SJ AO (humanitarian and civil rights advocate) – Website 1, Website 2, Library – 4 resources including a DVD