Paul Collins (Australian Religious Writer)
Paul Collins (born March 1940 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian historian, broadcaster and writer currently based in Canberra.
Collins has a master’s degree in theology from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from the Australian National University (ANU). He has taught church history and theology in Australia, the United States and Pacific countries and worked as a Catholic parish priest in Sydney and Hobart. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the ANU and the Ethel Hayton Visiting Fellow in Religion and Society at the University of Wollongong.
Collins has written for many Australian newspapers and magazines as well as for the The Tablet, the National Catholic Reporter in the United States and for several Catholic magazines in Germany.
Collins is a lifelong supporter of the Richmond Football Club in Melbourne.
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