Daniel Mannix
Wit and Wisdom
About This Book [ what the critics are saying | table of contents | about the author(s) ]
Almost a half-century since his death, Archbishop Daniel Mannix is far from forgotten and continues to be a source of great fascination. Michael Gilchrist’s latest book explains why. Dr. Mannix remains the most influential, controversial churchman in Australian history. No other church figure was so involved in issues of national, even international, significance over such a long period—or so outspoken and witty in targeting the political correctness of his day. Would that there were more like him today. Apart from focusing on Archbishop Mannix’s on-going spiritual leadership and his major areas of public engagement—the World War I conscription campaigns, Irish nationalism, State Aid, sectarianism, the Great Depression, post-World War II immigration, through to the Labor split of the 1950s and beyond—Michael Gilchrist provides a feast of examples of the Archbishop’s unforgettable wit and insightful comments.
What the Critics are Saying
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Foreword —George Cardinal Pell |
About the Author(s)
Michael Gilchrist
Michael Gilchrist is the editor of the Australian religious monthly AD2000.
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The Most Rev. George Pell, D. Phil., is the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. He holds a licentiate in theology from Urban University, Rome (1967), a master’s degree in education from Monash University, Melbourne (1982), a doctorate of philosophy in church history from the University of Oxford (1971), and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education. He was Visiting Scholar at Campion Hall, Oxford University, in 1979 and at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, in 1983. He was ordained a priest in St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, on Dec. 16, 1966. He was ordained an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne and Titular Bishop of Scala in 1987, and was appointed as seventh Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996. In March 2001 Cardinal Pell was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Sydney.
He has been a member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 1990 to 1995 and again from 2002. From 1990 to 2000 he was a member of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In April 2002 Pope John Paul II named him President of the Vox Clara Committee to advise the Congregation for Divine Worship on English translations of liturgical texts. In December 2002 he was appointed to the Presidential Committee of the Pontifical Council for the Family, having previously served many years as a Consultor to the Council.
Pell has written widely in religious and secular magazines, learned journals and newspapers in Australia and overseas and regularly speaks on television and radio. In September 1996 Oxford University Press published Issues of Faith and Morals, written for senior secondary classes and parish groups. Other publications include The Sisters of St Joseph in Swan Hill 1922–72, Catholicism in Australia, Rerum Novarum – One Hundred Years Later, and Catholicism and the Architecture of Freedom.
