Cardinal Newman Faith Resources Incorporated is in Church law a private lay association of Christ’s faithful, canons 298 and 299 ff. In Civil law it is an incorporated association under the Department of Fair Trading of the Government of NSW. Our association includes some priests as well as laity.

Our functions are:

National Religious Education Resource Centre
Specialists in Family Catechetics
Helping Catholic Homeschoolers
We are non-profit and are dependent on donations
Originally, Cardinal Newman Faith Resources Inc. was called the Cardinal Newman Catechist Centre; then by permission of the Bishop of Parramatta (as required by canon 300), the Cardinal Newman Catholic Bookshop.

Our aims are that of the Second Vatican Council, as declared by Blessed John XXIII on the day that he opened it, 11 October 1962. “The greatest concern of the Second Vatican Council, is that the Sacred Deposit of Christian Doctrine should be guarded and taught more efficaciously.” (The Documents of Vatican II, Abbott, p. 713).

We are listed in the Official Directory of the Catholic Church in Australia under “Other Organizations” in the Archdiocese of Sydney.

Bishop Anthony Fisher declared us to be an approved private enterprise in the Diocese of Parramatta on 14 September 2010.

Cardinal Newman Faith Resources also provides a service to the Order of St Paul the First Hermit by making faith resources available for pilgrims who vist the Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy at Penrose Park, near Berrima, NSW.