Damien Mackey
Damien Francis Mackey was born in Hobart Tasmania (Australia) in 1950. Educated by the Christian Brothers at St. Virgil’s College, he has a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Ancient History and Latin) from the University of Tasmania and a Diploma in Librarianship (ALAA) from the Hobart Technical College. He then left librarianship at the University of Tasmania to pursue the Fatima apostolate (Fatima International) in Canada, USA (in 1976, the Bicentennial year) and in Britain. The organisation folded, however, and he returned to Australia, to Sydney, to pursue the Marian and Fatima apostolate (Legion of Mary), doing parish work, including 15 years as a public school Scripture teacher. He also in the 1980’s began philosophical studies, eventually receiving a bachelor of philosophy degree magna cum laude from the Angelicum University (Rome) via the Aquinas Academy in Sydney (1985).
Meanwhile the Fatima interest had crystallized into an academy, the Church-approved Australian Marian Academy, co-founded with the Jesuit educated Frits Albers (Nijmegen, Holland), a warrior for the Faith, and the poetically-inclined Christian Brother, Jim Ward. The Academy’s primary emphases were Catholic Faith and its defence; True Devotion to Mary (Fatima); Catholic Education; Thomistic Philosophy; and the Philosophy of Science. In 1990, at the request of Polish-born Andrzej Maria Cardinal Deskur, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (a long-time friend of Karol Wojtyla - John Paul II) during an interview at the Vatican, the Academy’s name was extended to:
Australian Marian Academy of the Immaculate Conception
(AMAIC).
Mackey has been the editor of the Academy’s newsletter, MATRIX (‘Mater et Mediatrix’) for more than two decades.
After some years with the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Catholic Immigration (assisting South-East Asian refugees), and later working for the Passionist Fathers in Marrickville, Mackey returned to librarianship (part-time) at the Premier's Dept. It was during this time (1994) that he completed at the University of Sydney his first thesis, The Sothic Star Theory of the Egyptian Calendar (preceded by the study of Egyptian Hieroglyphics at Macquarie University), in which he scrutinized the documentary and astronomical basis of the conventional Egyptian dating in its relation to the Bible. (Thesis accessible at: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1632)
He also wrote the Marian book, The Five First Saturdays of Our Lady of Fatima (1994). A revised version of this book can be read at: http://amaic2.blogspot.com/2008/04/five-first-saturdays-of-our-lady-of.html
Regarding this book, Auxiliary Bishop Peter Ingham Wrote
21 May, 1995
Dear Damien
Thank you for your affirming letter and for the copy of your book on “The Five First Saturdays”. I note your credentials (from the book’s jacket) to write about our heavenly Mother. … May the Lord bless you for your efforts to promote the message of the Mother of God for our times. Gratefully yours (Bishop Peter Ingham). ….
Bishop Peter Ingham
Some of Mackey’s biblico-historical articles were now being published in overseas journals (e.g. Answers in Genesis Tech. J., Australia; Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, UK, The Glozel Newsletter and Mentalities/Mentalités, N.Z.), and the California Institute for Ancient Studies website.
This continues today.
Mackey was now also garnering part-time work as a Library Assistant at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), at TAFE, and at the Canterbury City Council, as well as doing clerical work for the government in the Department of Planning and Infrastructure. Mackey’s second thesis, A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background (preceded by a year of ancient Hebrew study - he received the Bernard and Lotka Ferster prize in Hebrew), was his attempt to develop “a more acceptable alternative” to the conventional chronology (2007). The idea was to bring secular history right into line with biblical history. Though this was a doctoral thesis, it was controversially passed only as an MA, after its going to a fourth examiner (introduced after one of three examiners had failed to recommend it for a doctoral award).
(Thesis accessible at: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5973)
Mackey continues to promote the spiritual and intellectual apostolate through the AMAIC, writing numerous articles for its web sites, and through the Academy’s MATRIX newsletter, whilst continuing to do part-time library work and also voluntary work in Sydney.
Meanwhile the Fatima interest had crystallized into an academy, the Church-approved Australian Marian Academy, co-founded with the Jesuit educated Frits Albers (Nijmegen, Holland), a warrior for the Faith, and the poetically-inclined Christian Brother, Jim Ward. The Academy’s primary emphases were Catholic Faith and its defence; True Devotion to Mary (Fatima); Catholic Education; Thomistic Philosophy; and the Philosophy of Science. In 1990, at the request of Polish-born Andrzej Maria Cardinal Deskur, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (a long-time friend of Karol Wojtyla - John Paul II) during an interview at the Vatican, the Academy’s name was extended to:
Australian Marian Academy of the Immaculate Conception
(AMAIC).
Mackey has been the editor of the Academy’s newsletter, MATRIX (‘Mater et Mediatrix’) for more than two decades.
After some years with the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Catholic Immigration (assisting South-East Asian refugees), and later working for the Passionist Fathers in Marrickville, Mackey returned to librarianship (part-time) at the Premier's Dept. It was during this time (1994) that he completed at the University of Sydney his first thesis, The Sothic Star Theory of the Egyptian Calendar (preceded by the study of Egyptian Hieroglyphics at Macquarie University), in which he scrutinized the documentary and astronomical basis of the conventional Egyptian dating in its relation to the Bible. (Thesis accessible at: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1632)
He also wrote the Marian book, The Five First Saturdays of Our Lady of Fatima (1994). A revised version of this book can be read at: http://amaic2.blogspot.com/2008/04/five-first-saturdays-of-our-lady-of.html
Regarding this book, Auxiliary Bishop Peter Ingham Wrote
21 May, 1995
Dear Damien
Thank you for your affirming letter and for the copy of your book on “The Five First Saturdays”. I note your credentials (from the book’s jacket) to write about our heavenly Mother. … May the Lord bless you for your efforts to promote the message of the Mother of God for our times. Gratefully yours (Bishop Peter Ingham). ….
Bishop Peter Ingham
Some of Mackey’s biblico-historical articles were now being published in overseas journals (e.g. Answers in Genesis Tech. J., Australia; Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, UK, The Glozel Newsletter and Mentalities/Mentalités, N.Z.), and the California Institute for Ancient Studies website.
This continues today.
Mackey was now also garnering part-time work as a Library Assistant at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), at TAFE, and at the Canterbury City Council, as well as doing clerical work for the government in the Department of Planning and Infrastructure. Mackey’s second thesis, A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background (preceded by a year of ancient Hebrew study - he received the Bernard and Lotka Ferster prize in Hebrew), was his attempt to develop “a more acceptable alternative” to the conventional chronology (2007). The idea was to bring secular history right into line with biblical history. Though this was a doctoral thesis, it was controversially passed only as an MA, after its going to a fourth examiner (introduced after one of three examiners had failed to recommend it for a doctoral award).
(Thesis accessible at: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5973)
Mackey continues to promote the spiritual and intellectual apostolate through the AMAIC, writing numerous articles for its web sites, and through the Academy’s MATRIX newsletter, whilst continuing to do part-time library work and also voluntary work in Sydney.
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Nigel Bernard.
Fraser Nelson.
William Foxwell Albright to have been enormously beneficial in helping
to piece together the biblico-historical (archaeological) picture puzzle.
In one particular case, though, I consider his proposed reconstruction
to have been an unmitigated disaster.
to “Ibni-Addad king of Hazor.” The form of the name in this text is Accadian; the West Semitic form would be “Yabni-Haddad.” Biblical Jabin (Yabin) is simply a shortened form of this same name”.
Anonymous.
Adam Maarschalk.
the pomegranate itself is dated to the Late Bronze Age?”
Stuart Zachary Steinberg.
ca. the beginning of the second century CE. So the author of Luke,
if he were emulating Josephus’s passage would, therefore, have written
this passage later in the second century CE.!”.
Michael Lockwood.
“Oh dear, I think I’m becoming a god!”.”
Bethany Williams.
simply nil in informing us about what happened “in the night of times”.”
M. Lagrange.
Zeyad al-Salameen.
Robert Spencer.
It asks nothing from us. The song allows us to feel morally superior while doing absolutely nothing. Nobody sensible believes any of it. We get to imagine a world of harmony with others where we don’t have to change”.
Michael Jensen.
Nigel Bernard.
Fraser Nelson.
William Foxwell Albright to have been enormously beneficial in helping
to piece together the biblico-historical (archaeological) picture puzzle.
In one particular case, though, I consider his proposed reconstruction
to have been an unmitigated disaster.
to “Ibni-Addad king of Hazor.” The form of the name in this text is Accadian; the West Semitic form would be “Yabni-Haddad.” Biblical Jabin (Yabin) is simply a shortened form of this same name”.
Anonymous.
Adam Maarschalk.
the pomegranate itself is dated to the Late Bronze Age?”
Stuart Zachary Steinberg.
ca. the beginning of the second century CE. So the author of Luke,
if he were emulating Josephus’s passage would, therefore, have written
this passage later in the second century CE.!”.
Michael Lockwood.
“Oh dear, I think I’m becoming a god!”.”
Bethany Williams.
simply nil in informing us about what happened “in the night of times”.”
M. Lagrange.
Zeyad al-Salameen.
Robert Spencer.
It asks nothing from us. The song allows us to feel morally superior while doing absolutely nothing. Nobody sensible believes any of it. We get to imagine a world of harmony with others where we don’t have to change”.
Michael Jensen.
And one called to another and said: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!’”
Isaiah 6:1-3
ILIA DELIO, O.S.F.
Paul K. Moser
in several ways appears to bear stronger similarities to the Pilate
described in the Gospels, than Pilate himself”.
Lena Einhorn
just “Felix”, which could well be simply a nickname.
the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?’
Acts 21:38
Daniel 2:34-35
I Peter 2:4-6
Rev. Nadim Nassar
Uwe Michael Lang
Colossians 2:13-15