The extraordinary contributions of Missionary of the Sacred Heart priest Fr Paul Stenhouse to the Church, scholarship, journalism and migrant families across Sydney and the country was recognised with an Australia Day award more than a year after his death.
Fr Stenhouse was one of 845 Australians whose decades of service were recognised in the Australia Day 2021 Honours List, in which posthumous awards are rare.The founder of Annals Australasia magazine, former chairman of Aid to the Church in Need Australia and international expert on Semitic cultures and languages, was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his service to the Catholic Church in Australia.
“It is recognition so richly deserved by this pioneering scholar, journalist and compassionate priest. He saw beneath the surface of things, and expressed his supple perceptiveness in all his writings, particularly the journal Annals, the longest lasting journal in Australian history. He was outstanding, kind and a humble Australian; a true ‘national treasure’.”
- Biographer, Wanda Skowronska
Fr Paul Stenhouse MSC (1935-2019) died at the age of 83. His death also marked the closer of Annals Australasia, the foremost inspirational publication leading to the birthing of New Annals.
In 2020, a new biography on Fr Paul Stenhouse was released by long-term contributing journalist to Annals Australasia, Wanda Skowronska. The biography is available at Connorcourt Publishing House here.
Multiple obituaries written to honour Fr Paul Stenhouse MSC following his death in November 2019. Read the obituary from long-term contributor to Annals Australasia, Karl Schmude here.