Vatican – Israel rupture over Gaza

Paul Collins is an historian, broadcaster and writer. A Catholic priest for thirty-three years, he resigned from the active ministry in 2001 following a dispute with the Vatican over his book Papal Power (Harper Collins 1997). He is the author of seventeen books, the most recent being The Depopulation Imperative (Australian Scholarly 2021) and Recovering the ‘True Church’ (Coventry 2022). A former head of the religion and ethics department in the ABC, he is well known as a public commentator on Catholicism and the papacy and has a strong interest in ethics, environmental and population issues. This article appeared in John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations, 21 Feb 2024 and is reprinted here with Paul’s permission.