The Pope's battalions
Subtitle: Santamaria, Catholicism, and the Labor split
By: Ross Fitzgerald ; with the assistance of Adam Carr and William J. Dealy.
Contributors: Carr, Adam; Dealy, William J.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press; Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services
Published: 2003
Place of publication: St. Lucia, Qld; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Santamaria, B. A. 1915-1998; Australian Labor Party -- History; Democratic Labor Party (Australia) -- History; Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century; Christianity and politics -- Australia -- History; Catholic action -- Australia -- History; Victoria -- Politics and government; Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Description: "The Pope's Battalions considers Santamaria's role and influence from the late 1930s - when he was a young Catholic Actionist in Melbourne - to his death in 1998. This prominent Cold War warrior founded the secretive National Civic Council and was the brains behind the Democratic Labor Party. His militant political Catholicism was central to the traumatic mid-1950s split in the ALP which kept the party out of office federally until the 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Catholics, communists and capitalists, 1915-36; title: The Church, the Movement and the Labor Party, 1936-45; title: Towards the Labor split, 1945-54; title: Splitting the Labor Party, 1954-55; title: The NCC and the DLP, 1955-63; title: Holding the line against the left, 1963-74; title: The view from the outer, 1974-83; title: The righteous and the rational, 1983-98; title: Friends in high places, 1991-98.