2018 Knox Lecture: What price loyalty? Australian Catholics in the First World War

On Wednesday 16 May 2018 I had the privilege of giving the 2018 Knox Lecture under the auspices of the Catholic Theological College, Melbourne. The lecture is held each year in honour of James Robert Cardinal Knox, fifth Archbishop of Melbourne. With 2018 marking the centenary of the end of the First World War I was requested to reflect on the way the Catholic Church in Australia related to and was affected by that war.… Read the rest