There is a doctor in the house

The
Catholic Weekly
Online

Sydney
15 February 2004

Birthday wishes for Aloysius

SA parishes merge

Focus on family

Gregorian Schola offers singers big chants

Gibson’s Passion ‘work of faith’, says cardinal

How to help create a ‘culture of peace’

Pregnant pause: The joy of showing our baby the way

There is a doctor in the house

Wollongong diocese buys site for high school

Boree log bush bash

Work in Catholic education brings honour for four

Bishop launches ‘significant’ new faith courses

$80,000 boost for drug fight

Editorial: Greatest story

Letters: Something special

Conversation: Fr Aiden Kelly, prison chaplain - Helping souls in a captive Congregation

On a walk with God ...

A credible Jesus

A biblical-based Mary

A life of Mercy with music

Care, prayer still very much in order

The Polding legacy

‘Catholic-only’ order denied

US-bound on the pitcher’s mound

There is a doctor in the house

FILM PhD: Fr Richard Leonard

The chief movie reviewer for The Catholic Weekly, Jesuit Fr Richard Leonard, director of the Australian Catholic Film Office, has become the first priest in Australia to earn a PhD in cinema studies.

The Australian Jesuits commissioned Fr Leonard 3½ years ago to undertake doctoral studies at the University of Melbourne with Prof Barbara Creed, who, he says, is “recognised throughout the world as Australia's most distinguished film academic”.

Fr Leonard’s doctoral dissertation was entitled The Cinematic Mystical Gaze: the Films of Peter Weir. Weir’s films include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, Dead Poets Society, Fearless, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

Fr Leonard is currently on assignment overseas.