» :: 2009 TIMETABLE Updated

Timetable updated: Revised dates for JP521 - Biblical Theology of Marriage and the Family.

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» :: 2009 Rev Francis Harman AO Memorial Lecture

The 2009 Rev Francis Harman AO memorial lecture, "Relationships Between Spouses: Love or Subordination" will be given by Rev Professor Jean-Baptiste Edart of the John Paul II Institute, Rome at 3.0pm Sunday 26 July in the Knox Room of the Thomas Carr Centre, 278 Victoria Parade East Melbourne.

This lecture is open to the public.

» :: A Pauline Colloquium - July 27- 28 2009

His Holiness Benedict XVI announcing a special Jubilee year, running from June 28 2008 to June 29 2009, dedicated to the Apostle Paul, expressed the desire that apart from pilgrimages to the tomb of the Apostle, “study conventions and special publications on Pauline texts will also be promoted in order to make ever more widely known the immense wealth of teaching they contain, a true patrimony of humanity redeemed by Christ”. In obedience to these wishes, the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne) has organised a colloquium. The colloquium will fall one month outside the official Pauline Year because our keynote speaker, Rev. Professor Jean-Baptiste Edart, was not available until late July.

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» :: GRADUATION 2009

Due to the fact that the process of the re-accreditation of the Institute’s courses is not yet complete, it is not possible to say whether the accrediting authority will approve the proposal to move the Graduate Diploma from 10 subjects to 8 and Masters degree from 20 to 16. Since this affects the numbers of students who might possibly graduate, it has with regret been decided to postpone the graduation until later in the year. We will notify you again as soon as we have a new date. Those students who have already applied to graduate will not need to re-apply once a new date is set.

» :: FEE STRUCTURE 2009

The Council of the Institute has approved the following fee structure for 2009.

Tuition: $715 per subject (including library fees), Masters degree dissertations will be charged as three subjects
Auditing: $350 per subject
Doctoral fees $5000 per annum (full time), $2,500 per annum (part time)

All audit and degree students are requested to make a voluntary contribution of $60 per semester to subsidise the provision of the Institute Handbook, Subject Readers, photocopying of subject papers and the Students’ Association. Students wishing to opt out may do so by informing the Registrar on enrolment for the semester.

» :: NEW GOVERNANCE - COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENT

Bishop Peter Elliott, the Director of the John Paul II Institute is pleased to announce that the governance arrangements at the institute have been changed to give a much stronger corporate focus to the institute and with the appointment of a new Council. There is also a new Academic Board with stronger links to other higher education providers and a broader range of expertise.

The New Council

The Council is to be chaired by the Archbishop of Melbourne, His Grace the Most Reverend Denis Hart DD. The new Deputy Chairman of the Council is Mr Fergus Ryan CA, FICAA, FID, FAIM, who is a Director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Director, Australian Foundation Investment Company; Director, Clayton Utz , Member, Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership, Deputy Chair of the Library Council of the National Library of Australia.

Other members of the Council are:

• Dr Michael Casey BA, LLB (Monash), PhD (La Trobe), Private Secretary to His Eminence George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney;
• Mrs Karin Clark BA, LLB (Melb), MLaws (Harvard), Special Counsel with Allens Arthur Robinson;
• Associate Professor John Ozolins MSc, PhD, Dip Ed (Melb), Grad Dip Ed (Admin)(Deakin), Head of School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University;
• Reverend Brian Boyle BA (ANU), BTheol (MCD), DipTertEd (UNE), STL, STD (Gregorian), Academic Dean, Catholic Theological College, Melbourne;
• Mr Paul Hoy LLB (MELB), Partner Gadens Lawyers; and
• Professor Mary Galea PhD, B App Sci (Physio), BA, Grad Dip Physio, Grad Dip Neuroscience, Foundation Chair of Clinical Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne and Austin Heath.

The New Academic Board

The new Academic Board is chaired by the Director, Bishop Peter Elliott MA (MELB), MA (OXON), STD (JPII Institute, Rome), Bishop Peter Elliott is the Titular Bishop of Manaccenser and Auxiliary Bishop in the Southern Region of the Archdiocese of Melbourne.

Other members of the Academic Board are:

• Associate Professor Tracey Rowland BA(Hons), LLB (QLD), B Litt, MA, Grad Dip Mod Lang (MELB), PhD (CANTAB), STL (LATERAN), Dean, John Paul II Institute;
• Associate Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini BA(Hons), MA (MONASH) PhD (MELB), Associate Dean (Teaching, Learning and Research), John Paul II Institute;
• Associate Professor Isabell Naumann ISSM, Dip Rep (TR), Grad Dip Theol, MTH (SYD COLL DIV), STD (DAYTON), Catholic Institute of Sydney and University of Notre Dame;
• Associate Professor John Ozolins MSc, PhD, Dip Ed (Melb), Grad Dip Ed (Admin)(Deakin), Head of School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University;
• Dr Darcy McCormack BA (Hons) (Otago), MCommerce (Melb) PhD (La Trobe), Senior Lecturer in Management, School of Business, La Trobe University;
• Dr Jolanta Nowak BA (FLINDERS), Post Grad Dip Art History, MA, PhD (MELB), until 2008, lecturer at Trinity College, University of Melbourne and tutor at the University. In 2009 mother and sessional lecturer at the Institute;
• and Miss Kristen Parkes BA(Hons) (St Francis Xavier), President John Paul II Student Association.

» :: APPOINTMENT OF DR RAFAEL HURTADO-DOMINGUEZ

Most Rev. Peter Elliott is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Rafael Hurtado-Dominguez as a full time Research Fellow at the Institute. Rafael holds a doctorate from the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain and a Graduate Diploma in Marriage and Family from the Melbourne Institute. His doctoral dissertation was on the topic of Parenthood in the Thought of John Paul II.

He is married to Carolina Villarreal Romo and they have a baby daughter, also called Carolina, and a second child is expected to arrive in December.

» :: FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY

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» :: NEWS AT JOHN PAUL II INSTITUTE

Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo (1933-2008)
President of the Pontifical Council for the Family

A Tribute by Most Rev Peter J. Elliott
Director, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne

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BOOK LAUNCH

by Associate Professor Tracey Rowland, Dean John Paul II Institute Melbourne

"Ratzinger's Faith - The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI". Published by Oxford University Press. Click here for further details from Oxford University Press, UK.

PRESS RELEASE - BOOK LAUNCH

Common Ground Seeking an Australian Consensus on Abortion and Sex Education

Editors
John Fleming PhD is President of Campion College, Sydney, and has had a longstanding interest in bioethics and its influence on the development of public policy.

Nicholas Tonti-Filippini PhD is an independent bioethicist, social commentator on bioethical issues, and senior lecturer in bioethics at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne.