A (Lay) Catholic Voice Against a National Consensus
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Patrick James Mullins
Patrick James Mullins is a Partner at Mullins Lawyers. He has 37 years in practice and is Australia’s only canon lawyer who simultaneously practices as a common lawyer. He is enrolled in the doctoral programme in the Faculty of Canon Law at KU Leuven, and is currently the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
Abstract
In both a canon law student’s essay and in oral remarks to the 2017 Onclin Chair conference at KU Leuven, the author critiques his own country’s closed border consensus excluding admission of boat people. He argues this political consensus in Australia is at odds with the celebrated national identity of Australians. Moreover, the author identifies that the closed border consensus is contrary to the Gospel, because it does not welcome the stranger and because it betrays the universality of the love of neighbour which the Gospel demands. The author argues that the voice of the Catholic lay person is not to remain silent, but is to speak out against the injustice of the policy because the Gospel, the magisterium of the Second Vatican Council in its decree on the Apostolate of the laity, the Canon law, Catholic moral theology and the dictates of conscience all demand the articulation of a contrary view.
About the author
Patrick James Mullins is a Partner at Mullins Lawyers. He has 37 years in practice and is Australia’s only canon lawyer who simultaneously practices as a common lawyer. He is enrolled in the doctoral programme in the Faculty of Canon Law at KU Leuven, and is currently the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
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- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Introduction: Law in End Times: A North/South Collaboration
- Focus: Law in End Times
- The Judgment as Revelation
- ‘Behold, I tell you a mystery’: Tracing Faust’s Influences on Giorgio Agamben to and from International Law
- The Embodiment of Law: Altered Carbon and Six Wakes
- Hail the Spectator: Embodiment, Injustice, and Film
- Politics of Silence: On Autonomous, Communicative and Aesthetic Silences
- Research
- “The Nude Man’s City”: Flávio de Carvalho’s Anthropophagic Architecture as Cultural Criticism
- Intervention
- A (Lay) Catholic Voice Against a National Consensus
- Book Reviews
- Jani McCutcheon and Fiona McGaughey: Research Handbook on Art and Law
- Conor McCarthy: Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Introduction: Law in End Times: A North/South Collaboration
- Focus: Law in End Times
- The Judgment as Revelation
- ‘Behold, I tell you a mystery’: Tracing Faust’s Influences on Giorgio Agamben to and from International Law
- The Embodiment of Law: Altered Carbon and Six Wakes
- Hail the Spectator: Embodiment, Injustice, and Film
- Politics of Silence: On Autonomous, Communicative and Aesthetic Silences
- Research
- “The Nude Man’s City”: Flávio de Carvalho’s Anthropophagic Architecture as Cultural Criticism
- Intervention
- A (Lay) Catholic Voice Against a National Consensus
- Book Reviews
- Jani McCutcheon and Fiona McGaughey: Research Handbook on Art and Law
- Conor McCarthy: Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature
