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Article: Serving the Australian Bishops in their promotion of social justice and human rights: 1987-2004.
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- Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The above title was given to this paper because I was invited by the Australian Catholic Historical Society to speak about my work over the past seventeen years as the first Executive Secretary to the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace (now re-named the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development, Ecology and Peace, to highlight the Australian Bishops' recent more explicit commitment to addressing ecological and environmental concerns).
Reflecting on the paper's title, I see a need for one brief preliminary comment. When I speak of 'serving' the Australian Bishops I am reminded that, in this area even more than others, their own is more a ...