Annals Australasia

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Annals Australasia was an Australian magazine of Catholic culture.

Originally titled Australian Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the magazine was established in 1889 by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Randwick, New South Wales. The first editor (though not fully acknowledged) was author and schoolteacher Mary Agnes Finn.{{cite web |url=https://www.misacor.org.au/index.php/item/2955-annals-130-years-old |title=Annals, 130 years old |date=11 Apr 2019 |website=Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia |publisher= |access-date=30 July 2021}}{{cite news |date=13 Jan 1949 |title=Mary Agnes Finn, Famous Catholic Authoress, Dies |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146663499 |work=Catholic Weekly |location=Sydney |access-date=30 July 2021}} By 2019 it was Australia's oldest continuously published magazine.[https://www.misacor.org.au/index.php/emagazine/current-news/1861-annals-50-years-paul-stenhouse-msc Annals, 50 years, Paul Stenhouse MSC], Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia, Current News, 12 Apr 2016.{{cite journal |last1=Stenhouse |first1=Paul |date=1984 |title='Within a shining pool ...' The annals of The Annals, 1880-1984|journal=Australasian Catholic Record |volume=61 |pages=271–281 }}

In the mid-twentieth century, it regularly provided information on Catholic missions to Aboriginal Australia,{{cite news |date=22 Jan 1935 |title=New Aboriginal missions |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48068436 |work=Northern Standard |location=Darwin |access-date=30 July 2021}} and a series of articles on "non-Catholic churches" by Dr Leslie RumbleEdmund Campion, [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rumble-leslie-audoen-11584 Rumble, Leslie Audoen (1892–1975)], adb.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 27 June 2021.{{cite news |date=23 Dec 1949 |title=Read Dr Rumble on the non-Catholic churches |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167727920 |work=Southern Cross |location=Adelaide |access-date=30 July 2021}}

The journal was renamed Annals Australia in the 1960s and Annals Australasia in the 1980s. It contained material on Catholic issues of a generally conservative focus, intended to appeal to students and teachers.

For most of the years from 1964 to 2019, it was edited by Fr Paul Stenhouse MSC.[https://www.misacor.org.au/index.php/item/1275-life-story-paul-stenhouse-msc Life Story: Paul Stenhouse MSC], Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Australia, 17 Sept 2014.{{cite book |last=Caruana |first=Anthony |date=1997 |title=Monastery on the Hill: A History of the Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington, 1897-1997 |location=Kensington NSW |publisher= Nelen Yubu Missiological Unit|pages=231–233 |isbn=0958786925 }} It was published by the Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington.

Annals closed with the issue of December 2019, on the death of Paul Stenhouse.Annals Australasia 130 (6) (Aug 2019), p. 1.{{cite news |last=Rodrigues |first=Marilyn |date=Nov 28, 2019 |title=Hundreds farewell Fr Paul Stenhouse |url=https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/humble-intellectual-fr-paul-stenhouse-farewelled/ |work=Catholic Weekly |location=Sydney |access-date=31 Aug 2020}}

A Papua New Guinea version of Annals was published from 1986, edited by Fr Adrian Meaney MSC.{{cite book |last=Meaney |first=Adrian |date=2020 |title=A Roaming Catholic |location=Kensington NSW |publisher=Mission Office |page=46 |isbn=9780980864489}}{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/mscpngprovince/annals |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025034959/https://sites.google.com/site/mscpngprovince/annals |archive-date=25 Oct 2020 |title=Annals |date=2011 |website=Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Papua New Guinea |publisher= |access-date=30 July 2021}}