First published as The Catholics in Australia (1996), the book has been revised and updated.
Throughout Australia's history, Catholics - until recently mostly of Irish origin - have numbered about a quarter of the population, makding them by far the largest active religious group in...
They offer a confrontational analysis of the direction for the church set by Rome and of the way in which this is stifling local initiative and alienating large numbers of Catholics from the institutional life of the church."
The Roman Mould of the Australian Catholic Church
The Catholic Church in Australia: A Short History, 1788-1967
Students and casual readers alike will come away with their questions answered, and those who want to learn more will find many good suggestions about what to read next. This is a valuable book, well worth getting and keeping.
This book examines the public discussion around the child abuse issue and its construction as a problem of Catholicism.
Church. in. Australia. When a small flotilla of ships sailed into what would later be called Sydney Harbor, the first Christians arrived in Australia. The year was 1788, and the first Christians were 750 British and Irish convicts and ...
The founding of the Catholic missions in Australia coincided with the defining drift of power and prestige within the nineteenth-century Church.
Cunningham, J. and Paradies, Y. Mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. ... Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2000. and Bcncforti, M. Hospital Statistics: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians 1997-98.
The US anti - communist crusader , Senator Joe McCarthy , was denounced for his exaggerated views on 9 April 1954 by Bishop Bernard J Sheil , Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago.65 Sheil's intervention contested Cardinal Spellman's dramatic ...