Ted Kennedy of Redfern and Burrawang
Irish and Aboriginal links
When Ted Kennedy, 74, former parish priest of St Vincent de Paul’s, Redfern, famous for his solidarity with Aboriginal people and for his challenge to Cardinal George Pell’s moral condemnation of homosexuals, died at Concord Hospital in Croydon, NSW, in the early hours of Tuesday 17 May, the news came to us in Fitzroy through two phone calls from Ireland before our Sydney friends had got started on their day. He would have liked that.
Those calls came from Ted Casey of Ring, County Waterford, and Seán O’Connor of Beamore, County … Continue reading