In the News

In the first edition of the Library Newsletter for 2008:

• David Kehoe discusses "thinking with the mind of the Church" and the importance of the Library in forming the minds of Catholics.
• John Young reviews GK Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward by Stephen R L Clark
• Anna Krohn pays tribute to Bill Finnegan, the Library's bookbinder and repairer, who passed away late last year.

Also included is an insert advertising the first three Wednesday lunchtime talks for the year: Saving Unborn Babies with the Helpers of God's Precius Infants and An Approach to the Apostles with Br. Christian Moe.

SPECIAL EDITION OF THE NEWLSETTER

The October edition of the Library newsletter is dedicated to Monsignor Ronald Knox, featuring an article by Br. Christian Moe fsc on the fiftieth anniversary of his death and a book review of Ronald Knox as Apologist. Also included are copies of the flyer advertising the Ronald Knox Seminar and the brochure from the Classic Catholic Author's series, which has a biography and list of recommended works available in the Library. For those who would like a copy of the newsletter, please contact the Library and we will post one out to you.

Finally a reminder to pencil into your diaries the Ronald Knox Seminar and Dinner on Saturday 6th October, commencing from 2pm at St. Francis' Hall. Entry is via the car park on the corner of Elizabeth and Little Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne. The cost for the seminar is $15 for adults, $10 for library members, pensioners and students.

For those unable to attend the seminar, there is always the dinner at the Stork Hotel on the corner of Elizabeth and Therry Streets from 6:30 pm. The Stork offers very reasonably priced entrees and main courses including camarones al ajillo (prawns in garlic oil), pollo saltimbocca, NY cut porterhouse steaks, risotto romana, fish & chips and chilli beef salad.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday for what promises to be a most edifying yet entertaining day.

Book Review of Jesus of Nazareth

Miss Tara Peters has written a review of Pope Benedict XVI's most recent work, Jesus of Nazareth, which will appear in the Library newsletter. The following extract is itself a review in miniature:

The Successor of St Peter has composed something remarkable in response to pickled relativism. Jesus of Nazareth confidently answers the questions of modern man with a purity of academic enquiry. The Holy Father has shared the fruits of his contemplation, and perhaps inadvertently, provided a valuable companion to works presently issuing from the Holy See. This volume concentrated upon events from Our Lord’s Baptism to His Transfiguration. These events are telling signposts for an introduction to the Prophet whom men would heed, and know face to face. We await the concluding volume with great enthusiasm.