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Judging a Daniel

VATICAN II: Archbishop Daniel Mannix active in his 100th year

DANIEL MANNIX: Wit and Wisdom By Michael Gilchrist Foreword by Cardinal George Pell

Reviewed by Dr MICHAEL COSTIGAN

We are a vanishing breed – those who can boast at dinner parties about seeing Don Bradman score centuries and those who also claim to have known Daniel Mannix. They were the heroes of my youth.

The great Archbishop of Melbourne was a regular visitor to my school, located in the shade of his cathedral, where he confirmed me in 1942. We often greeted him along the East Melbourne footpaths as he neared the end of his famous daily walk from Kew to the cathedral presbytery.

In later years, first as a Rome-bound seminarian and then as a priest of his archdiocese, I had the privilege of half a dozen meetings with him, including a long conversation in September 1963, only weeks before his death, when I was leaving again for Rome to report on the second session of Vatican II for his weekly paper, the Advocate.

One of my memories of that occasion is that the book resting on the small table by his elbow was The Council and Reunion by the young Swiss theologian, Hans Kung.

That Mannix, even in his 100th year, was taking a lively interest in the council has also been confirmed by the enterprising research of Jeffrey J Murphy, quoted in Michael Gilchrist’s revised and updated biography of the archbishop.

Dr Michael Costigan, executive secretary to the Bishops’ Committee for Justice, Development, Ecology and Peace, was associate editor of the Catholic Advocate (1961–69), having been appointed. He was appointed to that position by Archbishop Mannix.

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