Recently Added Titles - UPDATED 18 November2024
The November 2024 Recently Added Titles List is now available.
Please note: This list shows the most recent titles added to the collection at the Saint John Henry Newman Library. Please note that titles added may be published from various years and not limited to the current year.
Previous months' lists are also available here.

Library End of Year Closure Dates for 2024
Please note the following updates for December 2024/January 2025:

• The Library will be CLOSED from Monday 9th December 2024 for the end of year closure.
• The Library will REOPEN on Monday 13th January 2025.
• During this time, returns may be left in the returns box at the Newman Siena Centre between 9 December to 20 December 2024 or from 3 January 2025 onwards.
• Kindly note that the Newman Siena Centre will be closed from 23 December 2024 to 2 January 2025 and that returns facilities will be unavailable during this period.  Thank you.

Learning Series Guides
The following subject guides are prepared to assist you in learning more about important subjects/topics in our collection.  Current guides can be viewed at the main webpage:

• God and Integral Ecology
• Catholic Pastoral Leaders and Spiritual Wellness
• Catholic Social Teaching
• Gospels
• Jesus
• Catholic Moral Teaching
• Leading Catholic Schools
• Sacraments

Learning Series Quick Links 
The following links provide quick access to assist you in learning more about related subject/topics in our collection.
Newest links appear at the top of the list:

• • St Ignatius of Loyola - Rules for the Discernment of Spirits
  • Transhumanism
  • Women in the Gospel of Luke
  • Truth and Peace - Peace | Non-violence | War
  • Eileen O’Connor
  • Contemplative, Devotional and General Poetry
  • Mission of the Church
  • Ecology - Religious Aspects
  • Church History
  • Modern Theologians
  • Human Dignity
  • Blessed Carlos Acutis
  • First Nations People
  • Transfiguration of Jesus Christ
  • Old Testament Message
  • Nostra Aetate
  • Evangelii Gaudium
  • Christian Anthropology
  • New Testament - Themes
  • The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick
  • Vatican II, the Church and Modern World
  • Aboriginal Spirituality
  • Laudato Si
  • Modern Slavery
  • Synodality

More Learning Series Quick Links can be accessed here.

Preparing for Holy Year 2025 - Focus Areas
Before celebrating the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis is asking Catholics around the world to dedicate time between 2023 and 2024 to help prepare for the celebration: focusing on the four constitutions issued by Vatican II in 2023; and focusing on prayer in 2024.  The Library has prepared special Learning Quick Links:

• Four constitutions issued by Vatican II

The below expanded searches may also be useful:

• Vatican II
• Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy)
• Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church)
• Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation)
• Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World)

Recommend a Title
The Library welcomes title recommendations from members, to be included in the collection.  These may be submitted via the Recommend a title form.  All recommendations are considered in light of the Library's Collection Development Policy.

Library members have access to over 8,000 ebook titles
Access the Library's collection of over 8,000 curated electronic book titles from wherever you are, on demand.  Ebook titles are displayed with print books in the search results can be immediately accessed by clicking on the "View ebook" icon and logging in with your library membership card number and password.  If you need assistance, please contact sjhnlibrary@cewa.edu.au.

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