Dr Paul Morrissey
President
Lecturer in Theology
BA (Monash), Dip Ed,
Grad Cert R.E. (ACU), BTh (MCD),
STL (Lateran), STD (CIS)
Paul Morrissey became president of Campion College in 2015 after a career teaching theology and religious studies at university and high school. After completing his Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Lateran University in Rome and his Doctorate at the Catholic Institute in Sydney, Paul taught systematic and moral theology at the University of Notre Dame for eight years. He has published numerous papers in New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Logos and Solidarity.
Books
- (2017) Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium (Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium), eds. Kevin Wagner, M. Isabell Naumann, Peter John McGregor, Paul Morrissey (Eugene, Pickwick Publications)
Journal Publications
- “Is St. Thomas Aquinas’s Moral Teaching Christian? The Answer of Servais Pinckaers, O.P.”, Solidarity, 2015
- Faith in Faith: Reason, Faith, and Prayer in the Theology of Servais Pinckaers, OP, Logos, Spring 2015
- “Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, O.P., and the Renewal of Sapiential Thomistic Theology”, Nova et Vetera, Winter 2014
- “The Sapiential Dimension of Theology according to St. Thomas”, New Blackfriars, 14 June 2011
Opinion Pieces
- “Instead of abandoning the humanities, let’s save them from the loony left”, The Spectator Australia, 26 June 2020
- “How identity politics can only lead to anger – and violence”, The Spectator Australia, 17 June 2020
- “Western Civilisation speaks for itself”, The Spectator Australia, 21 February 2020
- “What’s behind all the fuss about Western Civilisation?”, The Catholic Weekly, 19 June 2018
- “Want happiness? Then die to yourself”, The Catholic Weekly, 7 June 2018
- Submission to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on Same-Sex Marriage, 7 February 2018
- “From Fargo to Hail Caesar: seeking God in film”, The Catholic Weekly, 1 October 2016
News Articles
- “Arts students hit hardest by government changes to university fees”, The Catholic Leader, 25 June 2020
- “There is much more to education than training”, The Australian, 21 June 2020
Video
- Sky News: Peta Credlin interviews Dr Paul Morrissey about Western Civilisation, 7 June 2018
- Chesterton Conference: Dr Paul Morrissey on The Dilemma of the Human Person, 31 October 2015
Audio
- “Reclaiming Wisdom”, Cradio, 28 October 2017
- “What does it mean to be wise?”, Cradio, 16 January 2016
- “How to read the Old Testament”, Cradio, 20 August 2014
- “Deadly Sins vs. Beatitudes”, Cradio, 30 July 2014
- “Love & the Christian Fulfillment”, Cradio, 1 July 2014