The University of Notre Dame Australia

  • Go forth and be leaders, Archbishop Fisher tells Auntie Elsie scholars

    The Auntie Elsie scholarships were established in 2020 to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame. Nine students received a scholarship this year, growing substantially from two inaugural recipients thanks to high-level support from the Archdiocese of Sydney and UNDA....
  • Br Patrick Howlett FMS honoured with Doctor of Education

    Br Patrick Howlett FMS was honoured for his commitment to and advancement of Catholic education in New South Wales, at The University of Notre Dame‘s Sydney Campus Graduation Ceremony on 14 March 2017. A pioneer of Catholic education in the Marist tradition for more than 50 years, Br Patrick...
  • WSU Catholic chaplaincy back in action

    By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook, March 2017 The Polish Dominicans are back for a new year of university chaplaincy at Western Sydney University (WSU). Fr Andrew Fornal OP, Fr Pawel Barszczewski OP and Fr Piotr Kruk OP are the three friars of the university chaplaincy. This year the chaplaincy...
  • QndA on Euthanasia and Palliative Care

    Euthanasia and Palliative Care will headline a discussion at the upcoming QndA forum at St Benedict’s Hall at the University of  Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus on Wednesday 7 December 2016. QndA draws pollies, priests and professors – of different faiths and traditions – to UNDA to thrash out...
  • Sophie drawn to smiling Sisters’ ministry to the family

    Source: Catholic Outlook, February 2016 It’s 5am and 24-year-old Sophie Boffa is beginning her day with half an hour of prayer in the chapel of the Queen of Poland Convent in Marayong in Western Sydney. The flames of the Holy Spirit are envisioned on the chapel windows, symbolic of...