Dr Angela McCarthy is an adjunct senior lecturer in theology at The University of Notre Dame Australia based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Her first degree from Sydney University included work in Biblical Studies and Fine Arts. After time spent rearing a family, Angela resumed secondary teaching and further studies in theology and education in 1993 at Notre Dame and was awarded her PhD in 2007. Since then, she has completed a further Research Masters in Theology in the field of Scripture, art and theology. Angela has published in the areas of liturgy, icons, art and theology, liturgical music, educational practice and theological aesthetics. She is a regular contributor to Madonna, an Australian Jesuit publication. She is the former editor of the Australian Journal of Liturgy, West Australian convenor of the Australian Academy of Liturgy, Chairperson of the Mandorla Art Award, a member of the Chamber of Arts and Culture WA and the Fellowship of Biblical Studies, and the editor of Pastoral Liturgy (Australia). For many decades she has been working in her parish in liturgy and music. She has been married to John for 49 years, has 4 children and 14 grandchildren.

Dr. Angela McCarthy has preached for the podcast Australian Women Preach: 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2024 and for the Feast of the Transfiguration, 2023.

She was also a respondent to Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ's presentation Synod on Synodality: Towards Promoting Theology: What does it mean for us?  presented in May 2024 by the Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR) and Garratt Publishing