Mr Joe Tedesco

Though originally schooled in Computer and Information Science, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in 1998, Joe Tedesco turned to theological studies soon after, completing bachelor and masters level degrees in theology from UNDA and Murdoch University. These studies focused on various areas of theology including theological anthropology and biblical theology. While studying, Joe was involved in various ministry programs that allowed him to exercise his passion in faith formation aimed primarily at youth and young adults – presenting various talks and seminars at conferences and in parish settings. More recently, Joe has been involved in teaching introductory level theology at the University of Notre Dame to students of various ages and backgrounds, something he has now been involved in for 10 years. Currently he is also working on a thesis focusing on ‘Wisdom Literature’ and its relationship to moral theology. Along with his wife of 16 years and two young children, his life remains very vibrant and full.

Dr Margaret Scharf, OP

Dr Margaret Scharf is a member of the Dominican Sisters of WA and is currently the director of the Dominican Institute for Spirituality. Recently returned to Perth after 17 years in the United States, she is a Retreat guide and spiritual director, including the formation of Spiritual directors, and presenter of adult faith formation programmes to parish groups and school staff. Her past ministries include primary education and administration, Motor Mission, and training of catechists in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. She has a D.Min in Spiritual Direction (GTF, Indiana), MA in Spirituality (Gonzaga University), M.Ed in Religious Studies (ECU Perth), and a GDA Intercultural Studies-Aboriginal(ECU Perth). With publications in Australia and the USA, she continues to compose liturgical music.

Mr Paolo Sala

Professor Paolo Sala is a teacher of dogmatic theology at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Morley, Perth. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Licentiate in Theology from the Pontifical Theological University of St Bonaventure in Rome. He has taught theology at Notre Dame University in Fremantle, St Charles’ Seminary in Guildford and has previously taught at the Centre for Faith Enrichment (at the time named Maranatha Centre). Paolo is married and is the proud father of three children and grandfather of three grand-children.

Mr Joe Tedesco

Though originally schooled in Computer and Information Science, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in 1998, Joe Tedesco turned to theological studies soon after, completing bachelor and masters level degrees in theology from UNDA and Murdoch University. These studies focused on various areas of theology including theological anthropology and biblical theology. While studying, Joe was involved in various ministry programs that allowed him to exercise his passion in faith formation aimed primarily at youth and young adults – presenting various talks and seminars at conferences and in parish settings. More recently, Joe has been involved in teaching introductory level theology at the University of Notre Dame to students of various ages and backgrounds, something he has now been involved in for 10 years. Currently he is also working on a thesis focusing on ‘Wisdom Literature’ and its relationship to moral theology. Along with his wife of 16 years and two young children, his life remains very vibrant and full.

Sr. Shelley Barlow, RNDM

Sr Shelley Barlow is a teacher and bridge-builder who has worked in the challenging settings of faith-formation for over twenty years. Shelley’s zest for her work is sparked by her missionary charism as a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions, and by her deep and abiding interest in the universal yearning for wholeness. Shelley has a Bachelor of Theology from Melbourne College of Divinity, and Masters degrees in Pastoral Ministry and Religious Education from Boston College, USA.

Sr. Shelley Barlow, RNDM

Sr Shelley Barlow is a teacher and bridge-builder who has worked in the challenging settings of faith-formation for over twenty years. Shelley’s zest for her work is sparked by her missionary charism as a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions, and by her deep and abiding interest in the universal yearning for wholeness. Shelley has a Bachelor of Theology from Melbourne College of Divinity, and Masters degrees in Pastoral Ministry and Religious Education from Boston College, USA.

Dr Pina Ford

Dr Pina Ford is team leader of the Catechist Formation Program, run by the Catholic Education Office (CEO) of Western Australia.The mother of seven and graduate from The University of Western Australia with a PhD on the natural law context of Thomas More’s Utopia, co-ordinates a program that equips volunteers engaged in the religious education of Catholic children outside the Catholic school system.

Rev. Dr Charles Waddell

Fr Charles is a priest of the Archdiocese of Perth. He has recently published Jesus Matters (St Paul’s Publications). Fr Charles holds a PhD (USA) and an STL (Rome). He shares his life with a blind dog named Prego.

Dr Terry Wilson

Chief Operations Officer and Vicar for Social Outreach Catholic Archdiocese of Perth, Terry was Assistant Director of the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia for 11 years before being appointed the Chief Operations Officer for the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth in 2007. Terry has a strong interest in the Catholic Church’s teachings on social justice. He was involved in Catholic education for 34 years as a teacher and administrator in secondary schools and as a consultant and industrial advocate.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB

The Most Reverend Timothy Costelloe SDB was solemnly installed as the sixth Archbishop of Perth in March 2012, having previously been an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.

Dr Catherine Kovesi

Catherine Kovesi is an historian at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on early modern Italy and on Australian religious history, especially of women religious. She wrote the first biography of Ursula Frayne (1996), a history of Ursula Frayne Catholic College in Western Australia (1999), and a substantial history of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Tahiti (2006 2^nd edn 2010). She has completed consultancy work for several religious orders, and has long championed the need to highlight the important role played by women religious in the social and cultural history of Australia.

Dr Christine Choo

Dr Christine Choo, historian, social researcher and social worker, has a special interest in Western Australian history, particularly the contributions of Indigenous people, migrants, missions and minority groups, on which she has published. Her PhD in History was published in 2001 as Mission Girls: Aboriginal women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900 – 1950 which received the inaugural Margaret Metcalf Award in 2003 for excellence in the use and application of archival materials from the State Records Office of Western Australia. Christine has published refereed journal articles, book chapters and book reviews, and has been a contract oral history interviewer for Forgotten Australians and other oral history projects of the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Recent projects include a collaboration with Deborah Ruiz Wall in the publication of Re-imagining Australia: Voices of Indigenous Australians of Filipino descent (2016), and an article, ‘Travels with Veronica Brady, Dante and Cervantes’ in  A Forum for a Theology in the World, Vol 4, 2017. Christine has had a long association with the Sisters of Mercy and was a Trustee, MercyCare Ltd. between May 2014 and October 2017.

Dr Jeff Kildea

Dr Jeff Kildea is an Adjunct Professor in Irish Studies at the University of New South Wales. In 2014 he held the Keith Cameron Chair of Australian Studies at University College Dublin. He is the author of Tearing the Fabric: Sectarianism in Australia 1910-1925 and of numerous books and articles on the Irish in Australia. He is currently writing a biography of Hugh Mahon, an Irish-Australian member of the Commonwealth parliament from Western Australia in the period 1901-20. For further details visit jeffkildea.com.

Sr. Shelley Barlow, RNDM

Sr Shelley Barlow is a teacher and bridge-builder who has worked in the challenging settings of faith-formation for over twenty years. Shelley’s zest for her work is sparked by her missionary charism as a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions, and by her deep and abiding interest in the universal yearning for wholeness. Shelley has a Bachelor of Theology from Melbourne College of Divinity, and Masters degrees in Pastoral Ministry and Religious Education from Boston College, USA.

Derek and Karen Boylen

Derek is a marriage counsellor and Director of the Centre for Life, Marriage and Family; an agency of the Archdiocese of Perth. He is also a sessional lecturer for the University of Notre Dame (Fremantle) in the Discipline of Counselling. Karen is a practicing Speech Pathologist and home-schooling Mum. Together they have co-ordinated marriage enrichment programs for couples and love sharing their experience of nurturing faith in the home. Derek and Karen have been married 18 years and together they have eight children, two dogs and one cat.

Mr Joe Tedesco

Though originally schooled in Computer and Information Science, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in 1998, Joe Tedesco turned to theological studies soon after, completing bachelor and masters level degrees in theology from UNDA and Murdoch University. These studies focused on various areas of theology including theological anthropology and biblical theology. While studying, Joe was involved in various ministry programs that allowed him to exercise his passion in faith formation aimed primarily at youth and young adults – presenting various talks and seminars at conferences and in parish settings. More recently, Joe has been involved in teaching introductory level theology at the University of Notre Dame to students of various ages and backgrounds, something he has now been involved in for 10 years. Currently he is also working on a thesis focusing on ‘Wisdom Literature’ and its relationship to moral theology. Along with his wife of 16 years and two young children, his life remains very vibrant and full.

Rev. Dr Charles Waddell

Fr Charles is a priest of the Archdiocese of Perth. He has recently published Jesus Matters (St Paul’s Publications). Fr Charles holds a PhD (USA) and an STL (Rome). He shares his life with a blind dog named Prego.

Deacon Greg Lowe (WACMRO)

Deacon Gregory Lowe is the inaugural Director of the new Western Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (WACMRO). WACMRO seeks to promote the acceptance and settlement of migrants and refugees into Australia. It aspires to support migrants and refugees in a manner that upholds their dignity to enable them to feel a sense of welcome and belonging in the parish and broader community. Rev. Gregory was ordained deacon by Archbishop Hickey in 2006 for the Perth Archdiocese. Currently, he is the Parish Deacon in the Innaloo / Karrinyup parish where he conducts baptisms, marriages,
funerals and assists at the Sunday Mass.

Mrs Anita Finneran

Mr Joe Tedesco

Though originally schooled in Computer and Information Science, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in 1998, Joe Tedesco turned to theological studies soon after, completing bachelor and masters level degrees in theology from UNDA and Murdoch University. These studies focused on various areas of theology including theological anthropology and biblical theology. While studying, Joe was involved in various ministry programs that allowed him to exercise his passion in faith formation aimed primarily at youth and young adults – presenting various talks and seminars at conferences and in parish settings. More recently, Joe has been involved in teaching introductory level theology at the University of Notre Dame to students of various ages and backgrounds, something he has now been involved in for 10 years. Currently he is also working on a thesis focusing on ‘Wisdom Literature’ and its relationship to moral theology. Along with his wife of 16 years and two young children, his life remains very vibrant and full.

Deacon Greg Lowe (WACMRO)

Deacon Gregory Lowe is the inaugural Director of the new Western Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (WACMRO). WACMRO seeks to promote the acceptance and settlement of migrants and refugees into Australia. It aspires to support migrants and refugees in a manner that upholds their dignity to enable them to feel a sense of welcome and belonging in the parish and broader community. Rev. Gregory was ordained deacon by Archbishop Hickey in 2006 for the Perth Archdiocese. Currently, he is the Parish Deacon in the Innaloo / Karrinyup parish where he conducts baptisms, marriages,
funerals and assists at the Sunday Mass.

Mrs Anita Finneran

Mr Joe Tedesco

Though originally schooled in Computer and Information Science, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in 1998, Joe Tedesco turned to theological studies soon after, completing bachelor and masters level degrees in theology from UNDA and Murdoch University. These studies focused on various areas of theology including theological anthropology and biblical theology. While studying, Joe was involved in various ministry programs that allowed him to exercise his passion in faith formation aimed primarily at youth and young adults – presenting various talks and seminars at conferences and in parish settings. More recently, Joe has been involved in teaching introductory level theology at the University of Notre Dame to students of various ages and backgrounds, something he has now been involved in for 10 years. Currently he is also working on a thesis focusing on ‘Wisdom Literature’ and its relationship to moral theology. Along with his wife of 16 years and two young children, his life remains very vibrant and full.

Dr Marco Ceccarelli

Dr Marco Ceccarelli is the Director of the Centre for Faith Enrichment.

Marco is committed to offering people an educational experience that allows them to draw on the richness of the Catholic tradition. He is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia and has taught European history and literature at The University of Western Australia. He holds a PhD in History/European studies (Jesuit studies) and an MA in European literature.

Marco is a former Journalist and Assistant Editor for the Archdiocesan Communications Office.

Aboriginal Catholic Ministry

Aboriginal Catholic Ministry promotes the spiritual, cultural and social development of people of Aboriginal descent. Providing pastoral care to Aboriginal people.

Sr. Shelley Barlow, RNDM

Sr Shelley Barlow is a teacher and bridge-builder who has worked in the challenging settings of faith-formation for over twenty years. Shelley’s zest for her work is sparked by her missionary charism as a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions, and by her deep and abiding interest in the universal yearning for wholeness. Shelley has a Bachelor of Theology from Melbourne College of Divinity, and Masters degrees in Pastoral Ministry and Religious Education from Boston College, USA.

Dr Margaret Scharf, OP

Dr Margaret Scharf is a member of the Dominican Sisters of WA and is currently the director of the Dominican Institute for Spirituality. Recently returned to Perth after 17 years in the United States, she is a Retreat guide and spiritual director, including the formation of Spiritual directors, and presenter of adult faith formation programmes to parish groups and school staff. Her past ministries include primary education and administration, Motor Mission, and training of catechists in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. She has a D.Min in Spiritual Direction (GTF, Indiana), MA in Spirituality (Gonzaga University), M.Ed in Religious Studies (ECU Perth), and a GDA Intercultural Studies-Aboriginal(ECU Perth). With publications in Australia and the USA, she continues to compose liturgical music.

Deacon Greg Lowe (WACMRO)

Deacon Gregory Lowe is the inaugural Director of the new Western Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (WACMRO). WACMRO seeks to promote the acceptance and settlement of migrants and refugees into Australia. It aspires to support migrants and refugees in a manner that upholds their dignity to enable them to feel a sense of welcome and belonging in the parish and broader community. Rev. Gregory was ordained deacon by Archbishop Hickey in 2006 for the Perth Archdiocese. Currently, he is the Parish Deacon in the Innaloo / Karrinyup parish where he conducts baptisms, marriages,
funerals and assists at the Sunday Mass.

Rev. Dr Charles Waddell

Fr Charles is a priest of the Archdiocese of Perth. He has recently published Jesus Matters (St Paul’s Publications). Fr Charles holds a PhD (USA) and an STL (Rome). He shares his life with a blind dog named Prego.