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Biography of Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria
Name: Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria
Birth Date: August 14, 1915
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Male
Occupations: organizer, author
Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria
Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria (born 1915), a Roman Catholic publicist and organizer in Australia, founded the Catholic Social Movement.Bartholomew Santamaria was born in Brunswick, Victoria, on Aug. 14, 1915, the son of Italian immigrants. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and soon became prominent as a Roman Catholic ideologist and organizer in Victoria. In 1937 he became assistant director and, in 1947, director of the National Secretariat of Catholic Action. This organization had been founded to enlist the support of the laity in the pastoral work of the Roman Catholic Church and existed in all parts of the world under the patronage of the Pope. In 1943 Santamaria created, and became president of, the Catholic Social Movement, which was organized and largely recruited by the members of Catholic Action.By the 1940s Santamaria's principal concern was the advance of communism in the Australian Labour party, and to counter it he sought to organize the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…party's chances of regaining office for the next decade and more. Santamaria himself, however, dropped out of public prominence, but he remained an important contributor to public debate on political problems facing Australia. He became a regular political columnist for The Australian and wrote several books on Australian politics and political leaders, including: Archbishop Mannix: His Contribution to the Art of Public Leadership in Australia (1978); Against the Tide (1981); Daniel Mannix, the Quality of Leaderhship (1984; and Australia at the Crossroads: Reflections of an Outsider (1987). Associated Organizations Associated Events Social movements Further Reading Santamaria's own account of the Catholic Social Movement can be found in his The Price of Freedom (1968) and in his contribution to Henry Mayer, Catholics and the Free Society (1961). Point of View (1969) was a collection of his commentaries on Australian foreign policy and domestic affairs. Tom Truman, Catholic Action and Politics (1960), was a detailed discussion of the entire subject.
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