Fr Tony Smith SJ - Parish Priest
Born and educated (St. Louis Jesuit School) in Western Australia.
After matriculation he joined the Society of Jesus at Watsonia, Victoria in 1965.
Completing the Novitiate and studies in philosophy, he returned to
Western Australia to complete an Arts degree.
In 1973 he was appointed to the staff of Riverview for Regency.
Theological studies took place in Parkville, Victoria, in the Years 1975 - 1978
Ordained in 1977 in the St. Louis Chapel.
In 1979 he was appointed to Riverview to take charge of Boarders.
In 1983, Tertianship and then to Fordham for postgraduate studies in Education.
In 1985 was appointed to St. Aloysius' College.
From 1986 to 2003 he was Headmaster.
In 2004 appointed Parish Priest of our Parishes. Ph: (02) 8918 4103 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Priests in Residence
Fr Ardi Handojoseno SJ 
Aloysius Maria Ardi Handojoseno SJ was born in 1969 in Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia. He is an alumnus of the Jesuit School, Loyola College, Semarang, and he received his Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from ITS Surabaya. He joined Society of Jesus in 1998 after working for a couple of years as a lecturer at Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya. He did his Philosophy in STF Driyarkara Jakarta, his regency as a Campus Minister and a lecturer in Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta. Then he was sent to Melbourne to do his Theology in the United Faculty of Theology. After his ordination in Yogyakarta in mid 2008, he worked as an assistant parish priest in the parish of St Anne, Jakarta. He comes to Sydney to pursue his Master of Engineering at UTS as a preparation for his future ministry back to Sanata Dharma University and happily joins the Jesuit Community in The Parishes of Our Lady of The Way, in sharing community life and in celebrating the sacraments.
Fr Richard Leonard SJ
- Superior of the Jesuit Community
Born at Warwick, Queensland, and growing up in Toowoomba, Fr Richard Leonard SJ directs the Australian Catholic Office for Film & Broadcasting for the Bishop’s Conference. He is also the Provincial’s Delegate for Mission Formation (on-going adult Ignatian education for the 2,000 employees within the 35 Jesuit works in Australia). Though not strictly on the parish staff, he also helps out at Sunday and weekday Masses as and when his busy schedule allows.
Fr Richard has undergraduate degrees in arts, education and theology, as well as a master’s degree in systematic theology.
After ordination to the priesthood at St Mary’s Church, North Sydney, on 11th December, 1993, he was apprenticed to Albert Street Productions where he wrote, produced and directed documentary films for Australian television.
In 1996 Richard undertook the graduate course in film production at the London Film School, Covent Garden. In 2004 he graduated with a PhD in cinema studies from Melbourne University.
He lectures in cinema and theology at the United Faculty of Theology and has been a visiting lecturer in Australian cinema at the University of Melbourne. In 2003 he was a visiting scholar within the School of Theatre, Film & Television at UCLA. In 2006 and 2008 Dr Leonard was a visiting professor at the Gregorian University in Rome. In 2007 he was appointed an honorary fellow of the Australian Catholic University.
Fr Richard is a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council and a film critic for all the major Australian Catholic newspapers. He has served on juries at the Venice, Berlin, Hong Kong, Brisbane and Melbourne International Film Festivals and has lectured on film, faith and culture across Australia and the Pacific, Asia, the UK and the USA.
He is the author of a number of books: “Beloved Daughters: 100 Years of Papal Teaching About Women (David Lovell Press, Melbourne, 1995); “Movies That Matter: Reading Film Through the Lens of Faith” (Loyola University Press, Chicago, 2006); “Preaching to the Converted Throughout the Sundays and Feastdays of the Year” (Paulist Press, New York, 2007); “The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema: the Films of Peter Weir” (Melbourne University Press, 2009). His latest book, entitled, “Where the Hell is God? Seven steps to hold onto faith in the face of suffering and pain”, (Paulist Press, New York), which is due to be released in 2010.