Mr. Santamaria And The Bishops
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At the heart of one of Australia's most turbulent religious and political controversies stands B.A. Santamaria — a firebrand Catholic activist whose clashes with the Australian Catholic hierarchy reshaped the landscape of post-war politics. Mr. Santamaria and the Bishops chronicles the fraught and often bitter relationship between Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria and the Catholic bishops of Australia, examining how his zealous anti-communist crusade through the Catholic Social Studies Movement (the Movement) ultimately brought him into direct conflict with the very Church he sought to serve. Gerard Henderson presents a meticulously researched account of ideological ambition, ecclesiastical authority, and the collision between a layman's political vision and the institutional Church's demand for obedience. Henderson writes with the precision of a political historian and the insight of someone deeply familiar with the inner workings of Australian Catholicism, situating this conflict within the broader Cold War anxieties of the 1950s and 1960s. The book raises enduring questions about the proper boundaries between faith and politics, between lay initiative and clerical control — questions that resonated far beyond the Catholic community and left lasting marks on the Australian Labor Party and the nation's political culture. For anyone seeking to understand the religious undercurrents that shaped modern Australia, this work remains an essential and revelatory read.
Author: Gerard Henderson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Studies in the Christian Movement
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the heart of one of Australia's most turbulent religious and political controversies stands B.A. Santamaria — a firebrand Catholic activist whose clashes with the Australian Catholic hierarchy reshaped the landscape of post-war politics. Mr. Santamaria and the Bishops chronicles the fraught and often bitter relationship between Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria and the Catholic bishops of Australia, examining how his zealous anti-communist crusade through the Catholic Social Studies Movement (the Movement) ultimately brought him into direct conflict with the very Church he sought to serve. Gerard Henderson presents a meticulously researched account of ideological ambition, ecclesiastical authority, and the collision between a layman's political vision and the institutional Church's demand for obedience. Henderson writes with the precision of a political historian and the insight of someone deeply familiar with the inner workings of Australian Catholicism, situating this conflict within the broader Cold War anxieties of the 1950s and 1960s. The book raises enduring questions about the proper boundaries between faith and politics, between lay initiative and clerical control — questions that resonated far beyond the Catholic community and left lasting marks on the Australian Labor Party and the nation's political culture. For anyone seeking to understand the religious undercurrents that shaped modern Australia, this work remains an essential and revelatory read.