Dennis Hurley Centre in print and online
The Dennis Hurley Centre has come a long way since its opening in 2015 and is spreading the archbishop's legacy by featuring in a new book and making waves on social media.
THE Dennis Hurley Centre celebrated the 75th anniversary of Denis Hurley becoming a bishop, on 19 March 1947, with a two-week series of historic photographs published on the Dennis Hurley Facebook page, receiving over 15 000 hits.
“We covered his life in ministry, his commitment to the education of both children and adults, his work as an activist, and his time at the Second Vatican Council. Readers added comments and clarifications and sometimes sent in their own pictures,” said the Dennis Hurley Centre director, Raymond Perrier.
Although The Dennis Hurley Centre is making its mark online, Raymond said that the centre is greatly honoured after being credited in print, “Our most prestigious appearance recently is in a book on homelessness in South Africa, co-edited by Prof Stephan de Beer of the Centre for Faith & Community at the University of Pretoria.”
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“Two of the chapters feature insights from the Denis Hurley Centre and a number of the contributors are partners of ours in the National Homeless. As we have just marked Human Rights Day, one interesting chapter is the one which explores how homeless people are in practice consistently denied the rights that are promised to them in theory by the Constitution,” said Perrier.
Perrier said the book is available to purchase in hardback, or free to download as a PDF.
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The book is titled Facing Homelessness.
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