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Catholic Thought and Catholic Action: Scenes from Australian Catholic Life

Catholic Thought and Catholic Action: Scenes from Australian Catholic Life

Paperback

Catholicism

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1922815365
ISBN13: 9781922815361
Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This is a book to enliven any discussion about the Catholic Church and Australian society. Readers will profit from James Franklin's rich research in out-of-the-way corners of our history.

Edmund Campion, Emeritus Professor of History

Catholic Institute of Sydney


The Catholic quarter of the Australian population have been driven by a unique vision of how humans fit in God's universe and of how objective ethics should inform individual and collective action. Following Jesus' command to be witnesses to the ends of the earth, Australian Catholics have worked hard to reform their own souls and Australian society. In this wide-ranging volume, James Franklin shows how core Catholic ideas have played out and motivated action across many fields of endeavour - remote area missions, virtuous rural communities, religious life, multicultural refugee programs, Labor politics, Magdalen laundries, Catholic philosophy. He brings to life the colourful characters behind the action, like F.X. Gsell, the Bishop with 150 wives, pugnacious immigration minister Arthur Calwell, fiery anti-Communist speaker Dr P.J. Ryan and ex-nun memoirist Cecilia Inglis. Saints and sinners, they transformed Australian society in directions it would not otherwise have moved.

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