austraLasia #2655 'Senior Fellow' joins distinguished list
MELBOURNE: 6 June 2010 -- Fr. Francis J Moloney SDB was
inducted as a Senior Fellow of the Catholic Theological College (CTC),
Melbourne, on Thursday 3 June, during its Annual Mass and Dinner. This
honour recognises Fr Moloney's long association with CTC and his
contributions. He began teaching Scripture there in 1976 and continued
in this role until his appointment as a Professor of Australian
Catholic University in 1994.
Since his return from the United States at the end
of 2005 Fr Moloney has taught two winter-intensive courses at CTC on
the Gospel of John.
As current Provincial of the Australia-Pacific
Province of the Salesians, Fr Moloney serves on the Senate, the
governing body of Catholic Theological College.
Fr Moloney now joins other Senior Fellows of the
College: Fr John Begley SJ (2004), Fr Austin Cooper OMI (2005), Fr
Norman Ford SDB (2005), Bro. Rod Doyle (2006), Fr Peter Cross
(2006), Fr Peter Kenny (2007) and Fr Ian Waters 2008, thus making him
the second Salesian to join this distinguished list.
The Australian-Pacific Province of the Salesians of
Don Bosco congratulates Fr Moloney on this significant recognition of
his long-standing contribution to the life of Catholic Theological
College
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On another sadder note, readers who knew Fr Bill Edwards (Bill had
studied in the US prior to ordination, then in later years briefly at
the UPS), will be sad to know of his death on 3 June in Melbourne. He
was a 'senior fellow' of another order, a much respected confrere of
the Australia-Pacific Province living out his final years in patient
suffering. In recent years Bill had been suffering from dementia, but
was wonderfully cared for both by the Salesian communities to which he
was variously attached, skilled personnel in two nursing homes who
looked after him, and in a special way too by a close friend, a past
pupil of his who devoted much of his time to accompanying Bill when he
could no longer look after himself.
Apart from the study periods oversees, Fr Edward's
entire Salesian life was totally dedicated to youth, and that included
many a young Salesian, in Australia, and for a period in the Pacific
Islands of Samoa and Fiji. He was variously teacher, principal, novice
master, confessor, the ever-present counsellor to many a person, and
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