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This is a list of current members of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Australia. Not all members have a publically available profile.

Dr Catherine Althaus
Dr Philip Ayres
Adrian Barrett
Alistair Barros
Therese Buck
Dr Henry T Burley
Dr Michael Eugene Costigan
Fr Thomas Daly SJ
Br Eugene Dwyer FMS
Most Rev Prof. Anthony Fisher OP
Robert Michael Haddad
Mr Francois Kunc
George Lines
Tess Livingstone
John Francis (Jack) Mason
Fr Bernard J. McGrath
Br Christian Moe FSC
Dr. M. Isabell Naumann ISSM
Jack Richard Nyman
Br Mark O'Connor FMS
Father Anthony Percy
Professor Patrick Quirk
Professor Hayden Ramsay
Dr Tracey Rowland
Erica Schuman
Brendan Scott
Anthony Greville Shannon
Dr Garrick Small
Benedict Smith
Greg Smith
Rev Prof Michael Tate AO
Marita Winters

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Dr Catherine Althaus

Current Position & Organisation: Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University
Academic Degrees & University: PhD (Griffith University)
Areas of Interest: Politics and Public Policy
Scholarly Activities: Political risk calculation, politics-religion interface, Catholic social teaching, bioethics of human embryo transfer.

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Dr Philip Ayres

Current Position & Organisation: Associate Professor, Department of English, Monash University
Academic Degrees & University: PhD (University of Adelaide)
Areas of Interest: Australian biography; eighteenth-century English culture; classicism
Scholarly Activities: Owen Dixon (MUP, Melb., 2003); Mawson: A Life (MUP, Melb., 1999); Classical Culture & The Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England (CUP, Cambridge, 1997), etc. etc.
Church Involvement: Lector at Our Lady of Victories, Camberwell, Victoria

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Adrian Barrett

Current Position & Organisation: Research Officer
Academic Degrees & University: BMus (Melbourne University)
Areas of Interest: Politics

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Alistair Barros

Current Position & Organisation: Senior Research Scientist (IT) / University of QLD
Academic Degrees & University: B.Sc (Hons), PhD
Areas of Interest: IT, Theology and Catholic Ecclesiology, Public Affairs (Economics, Foreign Affairs, Family)

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Dr Henry T Burley

Current Position & Organisation: Honorary Fellow, La Trobe University
Areas of Interest: Statistics; Applied Economics
Scholarly Activities: See profile at: latrobe.edu.au/business/profiles/burley.htm

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Dr Michael Eugene Costigan

"Current Position & Organisation: Executive Secretary, Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development, Ecology and Peace
Academic Degrees & University: Iuris Utriusque Doctor, Pontifical Lateran University, Doctor in Canon and Civil Law, 1961 Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus, Pontifical Urban University, Licentiate in Sacred theology, 1956
Areas of Interest: Catholic Social Teaching, Human Rights, History of Australian Church's Social Justice Action
Scholarly Activities: Non-academic addresses on social issues.
Church Involvement: Editor - ""The Advocate"" (1961-1969). Active post-Conciliar Ecumenism, 1973 Eucharistic Congress and Papal Visits 1986 and 1995.

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Fr Thomas Daly SJ

Current Position & Organisation: Professor Emeritus, Jesuit Theological College
Areas of Interest: Philosophy, Bioethics, Lonergan Studies
Scholarly Activities: Contributor to 'Australian Lonergan Workshop II' (Novum Organum Press)
Church Involvement: Billings Ovulation Method Council of Victoria

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Br Eugene Dwyer FMS

"Current Position & Organisation: Lecturer / Formation Director; Marist Asia Pacific Center, Manila
Academic Degrees & University: B.Sc.(Sydney); Dip.Ed. (Sydney); B.Ed. (Melb.); M.A. (Fordham); Ps.L. (P.U.G., Rome)
Areas of Interest: Theological Anthropology; Post-Liberal Paradigm of Religious Life; Anthropology of Religious Vocation; Integral Human Development; Theology of the Body; N.F.P.
Scholarly Activities: ""Warfare or Communion? A pastoral-psychological note on sex differences"" African Christian Studies (CUEA,Nairobi) 11,1 (March 1995) 3-36.
Church Involvement: Past Member Melb. Archdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Commission & Cath. Educn Board; Member Provincial & General Chapters (FMS); Catholic Psychologists' Guild; Relig. Formation Work (Melb., S.Pacific, PNG, Africa, Manila since 1978); Consultant & Lecturer Seminaries (Melb., Wagga, Suva); Lecturer Y.T.U., C.U.E.A. (Nairobi)

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Most Rev Prof. Anthony Fisher OP

Current Position & Organisation: Professor of Bioethics, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne)
Academic Degrees & University: BA (Hons), LLB (Sydney), BTheol (Hons) (Melbourne), DPhil (Oxford)
Areas of Interest: Moral Theology & Bioethics
Scholarly Activities: jp2institute.org/admin_fisher.html
Church Involvement: Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney Archdiocese. See sydney.catholic.org.au/People/Bishops/Fisher for more information.

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Robert Michael Haddad

Current Position & Organisation: Catholic Education
Areas of Interest: Catechetics; Church History; Church Fathers; Apologetics
Scholarly Activities: Conference speaker; Author: Christ the Teacher (2003)
Church Involvement: Lecturer - Centre for Thomistic Studies; Involved in Lumen Verum Apologetics & Sydney University Chaplaincy.

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Mr Francois Kunc

Current Position & Organisation: Barrister
Academic Degrees & University: BA LLB (University of Sydney)
Areas of Interest: Law, Public Policy, Theology

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Tess Livingstone

Current Position & Organisation: Higher Education editor and leader writer, The Courier-Mail (News Ltd)
Academic Degrees & University: BA (University of Queensland); Press Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge 1989
Areas of Interest: The church in the media, book publishing, education, history, psychology
Scholarly Activities: George Pell (Publisher, Duffy and Snellgrove) 2002; US edition published by Ignatius 2004; contributor to Annals magazine of Catholic culture; public lecture/debate Sydney Institute December 2002; 30 minute speech followed by 90 minutes questions to the K
Church Involvement: Member of the Parish Council at St Kevin's Catholic church, geebung, BRISBANE.

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John Francis (Jack) Mason

Current Position & Organisation: Retired
Areas of Interest: Australian History, English Language, English Romantic Poetry
Church Involvement: St Vincent de Paul; IRABINA - Projects for Intellectually Disabled Adults

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Fr Bernard J. McGrath

Current Position & Organisation: Priest of Diocese of Sandhurst & Catholic Education
Areas of Interest: Theology, philosophy, politics, economics, culture, education, catechetics
Scholarly Activities: Sermons, letters to media, Catholic social teachings to groups, occasional papers on current affairs to study groups, meetings.
Church Involvement: Parish Priest

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Br Christian Moe FSC

"Current Position & Organisation: Tutor - Corpus Christi Seminary, Carlton; Retired
Areas of Interest: Dogmatic Theology; Ancient Greek Philosophy; Classical Literature; English Literature
Scholarly Activities: Addresses at Campion Fellowship; Caroline Chisholm Library.
Part-time at Catholic Theological College, Melbourne.
Assisted preparation of Religious Texts for Melbourne Archdiocese
Church Involvement: De La Salle Brothers

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Dr. M. Isabell Naumann ISSM

Current Position & Organisation: Vice-Director of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne, Australia / Member of the Faculty of the International Marian Research Institute, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA; Visiting Professor for Systematic Theology, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines; Lecturer at the Catholic Theological College, Melbourne College of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia; Lecturer in Human Formation, Good Shepherd Seminary of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Academic Degrees & University: DIP REP (TR); GRAD DIP THEOL (SYD); MTH (SYD); STD (DAYTON/ROME)
Areas of Interest: Systematic Theology: Ecclesiology, Mariology, Theological Anthropology
Scholarly Activities: John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne, Australia

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Jack Richard Nyman

Current Position & Organisation: Retired Lecturer University of Newcastle
Areas of Interest: Arianism and its consequences
Scholarly Activities: Book on teaching history; booklet on writing
Church Involvement: Established parish council; past mission director

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Br Mark O'Connor FMS

Current Position & Organisation: Deputy Director Catholic Adult Education Archdiocese of Melbourne
Academic Degrees & University: M.Theol (MCD); M.Phil (trinity , Dublin) Ph.D (candidate) Latrobe
Areas of Interest: Ecclesiology and Social Teaching

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Father Anthony Percy

Current Position & Organisation: Parish Priest
Academic Degrees & University: Bachelor in Commerce, Theology, Licentate in Theology and Doctorate in Theology
Areas of Interest: Catholic Social Teaching and Sexual Ethics

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Professor Patrick Quirk

Current Position & Organisation: Associate Professor, Bond Law School; Visiting Ave Maria
Areas of Interest: Law
Scholarly Activities: http://www.bond.edu.au/law/staff/quirk.htm

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Professor Hayden Ramsay

Current Position & Organisation: Academic Research Fellow & Professor, John Paul II Institute Melbourne
Academic Degrees & University: MA PhD
Areas of Interest: Philosophy
Scholarly Activities: Teaching at John Paul II Institute, Catholic Theological College, Melbourne; Catholic Institute of Sydney. Popular publications on faith and reason.

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Dr Tracey Rowland

"Current Position & Organisation: Dean, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne)
Areas of Interest: Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philosophical & Theological Anthropology
Scholarly Activities: Author: Culture & the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (London: Routledge, 2003)
'Reclaiming the Tradition: John Paul II as the Authentic Interpreter of Vatican II', in John Paul II the Great: Maker of the Post-Conciliar Church, N. Oddie (ed.) (London: CTS, 2003)
Church Involvement: Member, Australian Catholic Womens Commission

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Brendan Scott

Current Position & Organisation: PhD student, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU
Academic Degrees & University: BSc (UQld), PGDip (Hons equivalent) (UQld).
Areas of Interest: Human Genetics, Parasitology, Malaria, Evolutionary Biology

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Anthony Greville Shannon

Current Position & Organisation: Master, Warrane College / Emeritus Professor, UTS
Academic Degrees & University: PhD, EdD, DSc
Areas of Interest: Fuzzy Logic, Number Theory, Epidemiology

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Dr Garrick Small

Current Position & Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney
Areas of Interest: Property Economics, Property Theory; Social Theory; Ethics
Scholarly Activities: members.optusnet.com.au/~garricksmall
Church Involvement: Franciscan Tertiary

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Greg Smith

Current Position & Organisation: Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions / Practising Barrister
Academic Degrees & University: LL.B (Sydney)
Areas of Interest: Life issues; Bio-Ethics

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Benedict Smith

Current Position & Organisation: PhD student, Macquarie University
Academic Degrees & University: Bachelor of Technology (Optoelectronics), Honours
Areas of Interest: Culture of Life and Love

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Rev Prof Michael Tate AO

Current Position & Organisation: Parish Priest / Hon Prof of Law, University of Tasmania
Academic Degrees & University: LL.B. (Hons), (Tas), MA (Oxon)
Areas of Interest: International Humanitarian Law

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Marita Winters

Current Position & Organisation: Director / Post-graduate student at JPII Institute for Marriage and Family
Academic Degrees & University: BA Comms; Grad Dip in Theology (marriage and family studies)
Areas of Interest: Media and communications, current issues in marriage and family

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